Conceit Quotes

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There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.