None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.” — Wally Lamb We Are Water Copy Share Image
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you believe might be wrong; what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The lessons learned on a pure practical production standpoint were immense. It instilled a faith that you can accomplish what you want… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to… — Storm Jameson 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
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
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
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
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
