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  • If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul.

    Wise   Reading   Flower  
  • When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

  • Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

  • It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

    Faith   Work   Privilege  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364
  • Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

    Fear   Islamic   Pride  
    "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 72,
  • Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge.

  • With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

  • Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

    Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.66
  • Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.522, Delphi Classics
  • Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

    Heart   Pride   Thinking  
  • If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

  • Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

    Men   High Heels   Shoes  
  • The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

  • The best manners are stained by haughtiness.

  • O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [141]
  • Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  • The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

  • I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics
  • Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

  • Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

    Love   Christian   War  
  • Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

    Pride   Sea   Soul  
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.41
  • Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

    William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.210
  • Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

    Pride   Men   Vices  
    Samuel Johnson (1804). “Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [chiefly of Johnson, ed. by T. Davies]. By S. Johnson”, p.359
  • Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

    Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
  • Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

    Humble   Humility   Saint  
    Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.52, Behrman House, Inc
  • Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

    Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”
  • Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

  • When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.

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