Conceit Quote by Aesop Download Open image “The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.” — Aesop ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceit Greater Mind Psychology
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. — Hitopadesa Copy Share Image
“Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“At the same time, they find their mind-god has played a trick on them. For mind is a part of the very system it… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself,… — Aesop Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. — Aesop Copy Share Image
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains… — Aesop Copy Share Image
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come… — Aesop Copy Share Image
“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it. — James Dobson 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 been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello 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 narrow, so… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art,… — Anton Chekhov 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
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
