Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain 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
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit. — Robert A. Heinlein 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
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars. — Michael Drayton 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
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit… — Orson Welles 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
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt 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
