The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Ignorance Quotes, Pride Quotes

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good,...

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good,...

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many...

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many...

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices...

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices...

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed...

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed...

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it...

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it...

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward...

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward...

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those...

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those...

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people...

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people...

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not...

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not...

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after...

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them;...

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them;...

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest...

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest...

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate,...

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate,...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.