Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The… — William Shakespeare 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
It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched,… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he… — Anonymous 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
“I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck… — Carl Sagan 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
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
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
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
