Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pri...de relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And still we wear our uniforms, follow The cracked cry of the bugles, comb and brush... Our pride and prejudice, doctor the sallow Initial ardor, wish to keep it fresh. Still we applaud the President's voice and face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments becom...e prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it would... not be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What can be more soothing, at once to a man's Pride, and to his Conscience, than the conviction that, in taking vengeance on his e...nemies for injustice done him, he has simply to do them justice in return?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of the three forms of pride, that is to say pride proper, vanity, and conceit, vanity is by far the most harmless, and conceit by ...far the most dangerous. The meaning of vanity is to think too much of our bodily advantages, whether real or unreal, over others; while the meaning of conceit is to believe we are cleverer, wiser, grander, and more important than we really are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride--the temptation blithely to d...eclare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ...ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »