Quotes About Conceit

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

Do you know what it's like going through life better than everybody? It's hard.

Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special.

As proud as Lucifer.

And I am sick for want of sleep; So sick, that I can half-believe The soundless river pouring from the cave Is neither strong nor deep; Only an image fancied in conceit.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

You people sit in your yamen [headquarters], and your horizon is your window sill,' he went on. `You are ignorant because no one dares to correct you. You might lose face and, what's more, some one might lose his head. You've retreated into your intellectual rat holes, having exposed only a posterior of vanity. Goddamn it, sir, you've all become insufferably stupid!

It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less.

Caesar freely confessed to me, that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away.

I rather take this quality to spring from a very common infirmity of human nature, inclining us to be most curious and conceited in matters where we have least concern, and for which we are least adapted by study or nature.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

An early reviewer of Cantos XXXI–XLI in the New York Nation amused himself with the conceit of Mr Pound taking correspondence courses in such subjects as 'History of the U.S. Treasury from the Revolution to the Civil War (from the Original Documents)' and making notes diligently on small pieces of paper which a gust of wind scattered over the hills about Rapallo, and which he then picked up and sent to the printer as he found them.

I, who am not afraid of death, was afraid of the shouting of this dull, narrow-minded clod, petrified with professional conceit.

The actions of m?y? are such that a powerful person, misled by the illusory, material energy, wrongly accepts himself as all in all and does not develop God consciousness.

What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism" p 61

Pride comes before a fall

The boaster and the proud person are fools.

Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions.

Pride only hurts, it never helps.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Vanity is not like a horse or an elephant requiring expensive fodder.

Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation.