We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it. — James Dobson Copy Share Image
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job… — Johnny Unitas Copy Share Image
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image