Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. — George Zimmerman Copy Share Image
As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right? — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. — Paul Hauck Copy Share Image
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste.… — Robert Moses 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
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. — Margaret Oliphant 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
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
“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
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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