Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.” — Wally Lamb We Are Water Copy Share Image
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. — Paul Hauck Copy Share Image
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. — George Zimmerman Copy Share Image
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
