Conceit Quotes

183 quotes by 150 authors

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to… — Dennis Lehane
Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it. — James Dobson
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was… — Gautama Buddha
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be… — Jean-Georges Noverre
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. — Emma Goldman
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your… — Og Mandino
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. — Charles Darwin
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very… — Robert Anton Wilson
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
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid. — Bill Crawford
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. — Jerome K. Jerome
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring. — Tim Hetherington
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl. — Petr Skrabanek
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point. — Ralph Cudworth
As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be… — Shadia Drury
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans.… — John William Draper

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