Conceit Quotes

183 quotes by 150 authors

Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly.… — Elisabeth Elliot
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when… — Aristotle
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. — Alain-Rene Lesage
What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and… — J C Ryle
Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded… — Oswald Chambers
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All… — C.S. Lewis
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies . — Napoleon Hill
There's a big difference between confidence and conceit. — Johnny Unitas
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas… — Richard Dawkins
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably… — Charles Dickens
Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty. — Mao Zedong
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton
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, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification,… — Ezra Taft Benson
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. — Johnny Unitas
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.… — John Dewey
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome. — Saadi
Isolation breeds conceit. — Charles Dudley Warner
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward

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