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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. - Samuel Butler

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler

Ignorance, Pride, Arrogance, Truest

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential. Ryan Holiday

Work, Goals, Freedom, Power, Creative

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. DeWitt Clinton

Power, Knowledge, Shadow, Space, Wealth

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. T. E. Lawrence

Dreams, Eyes, Men, Day, Night, Dream

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. - George Sand

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. George Sand

Reason, Quicksand

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. - Jane Austen

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Jane Austen

Weak, Head, Working, Mischief, Every

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. Pope Francis

Beautiful, Truth, Reality, Look, You

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen

Words, Pride, Proud, Opinion, Think, May

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Mark Twain

Man, Animal, Dumb, Because, Like, Just

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. Elle Macpherson

Good, Women, Beautiful, Live, Myself

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats

Wisdom, Wise, Man, Proud, You, Will

Stupidity talks, vanity acts. Victor Hugo

Stupidity, Acts, Talks

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

Attitude, Space, Know, You, Create, How

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride, Just, Hardest, Our, Precisely

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Moshe Safdie

Beauty, Joy, Truth, Arrogance, Fall

Vanity is my favourite sin. Al Pacino

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. Napoleon Bonaparte

Great, Welcome, Influence, Need, Out

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka

Complacency, Always, Breath, First, Draw

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Blaise Pascal

Time, Knowledge, Science, Ignorance, Me

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. Yousuf Karsh

Great, Men, Quality, Great Men, Single

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Garrison Keillor

Time, People, Greed, Look, Never, See

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, Pain, Feel, Shame, Give, Us

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life. Emile Zola

Life, Happiness, Peace, Power, Man, Lost

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Gustav Mahler

You, Delusion, Must, Convention

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. Lord Mountbatten

Believe, Goodness, I Believe, Check

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. Donald G. Mitchell

Love, Heart, Simple, Long, Pure, Above

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