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View Quote By ignorance is pride increased;They most assume who know the least.
View Quote C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942), page 69 in the Harper Collins 2001 edition, ISBN 0-06-065293-4.
View Quote Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove! I'm being humble", and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear.
View Quote Charles Caleb Colton, p. 486.
View Quote Dhul-Nun al-Misri quoted in Ellen Kei Hua, ed., Meditations of the Masters, cited in Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Souls Like Ourselves (Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, 2000), p. 42.
View Quote Dignity
View Quote Ed Greenwood, The Dragon & the Mouse, in Robin D. Laws (ed.) The Lion and the Aardvark (2013), ISBN 978-1-908983-02-2, p. 122
View Quote Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VI, line 324.
View Quote Edward Young, p. 485.
View Quote Edwin Hubbell Chapin, p. 484.
View Quote Emotions
View Quote Ernst Bloch, Man on His Own (1959), B. Ashton, trans. (1970), p. 62.
View Quote Evil does not approach us as pride any more, but on the contrary as slumber, lassitude, concealment of the "I." … It may make us so quickly contented, that any definitive fire will die down. The venomous, breathtaking frigid mist seems able … to harden hearts and fill them with envy, obduracy and resentment, with bloody scorn for the divine image and light, with all the causes of the only true original sin, which is not wanting to be like God.
View Quote Francis Quarles, p. 485.
View Quote Free at last, they took your life - they could not take your pride.