The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste.… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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