Joseph Joubert Quotes

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

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

Big egos have little ears.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

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

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

An empty man is full of himself.

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.

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.