The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
“I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit. — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper 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
There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with… — Bill W 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
“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
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
“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 woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like.… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
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