Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It’s more of a…

“It's the same as a hereditary disease, weakness. No matter how much you understand it, there's nothing you can do to cure yourself. It's…

— Haruki Murakami

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

— Bob Dylan

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease…

— Bob Dylan

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

— James Dobson

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide…

— Bob Dylan

I went into hospital with left-side weakness and speech problems and was diagnosed with a stroke. And then I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

— Kadeena Cox

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art,…

— Anton Chekhov

Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

— Elvis Costello

Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich