F. Sionil Jose Quotes

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

I don't choose to be humble.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.