Conceit Quotes
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.
As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.
Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee
If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.
Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...
