Conceit Quote by Henry Home, Lord Kames Download Open image “Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.” — Henry Home, Lord Kames ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceit Every man Eye Figures Littles Men
“Only small men are incapable of seeing something greater than themselves” — Christian Cameron Copy Share Image
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes,” the Mountain declared. “Cut them out and give them to your next outrider.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning. — Henry Home, Lord Kames 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
