Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon. — Rose Henniker Heaton Copy Share Image
Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
“It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
“In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it… — Louisa May Alcott 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
There is no way they should walk out of that place [Wells Fargo] with millions, tens of millions, tens and tens of… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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