Conceit Quotes · Page 9

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…

— Janet Morris

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is…

— John Dewey

So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.

— Allen Tate

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";…

— John Balguy

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

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

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

— Anonymous

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

— Francis Bacon

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my…

— Colm Tóibín

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

— Anonymous

“An ego always looks at his face in the mirror never in his eyes.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a…

— Max Minghella

Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary…

— D. H. Lawrence

As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and…

— Shadia Drury

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.…

— Emma Goldman

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I…

— David Niven

“At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.”

— George Soros

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

— Sri Chinmoy

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of…

— John Perry Barlow

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to…

— Franz Grillparzer