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Conceit Quotes by John Dewey
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it…
- 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.…
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- Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if… — Elwyn Brooks White
- Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott
- 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
- When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them.… — Sun Tzu
- Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris
- Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche