Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Conceit is what makes a little squirt thinks he is a fountain of knowledge. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars. — Michael Drayton 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
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
Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse -… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't… — David Fincher 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
There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“Took long enough,” she called out, not wanting to admit how the sight of him made her throat hitch, how the man… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From… — Bob Dylan 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
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey 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
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours,… — Millard Kaufman Copy Share Image
“She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on… — George MacDonald 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
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation… — John Dewey 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
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
