People tend to take pride in who they are. And that's a bad idea, because that stops you from becoming who you could be. Because, if you're proud of who you are, you won't let that go when it's necessary; you won't step away from it.

Jordan Peterson

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It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things - a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

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