Quotes About Conceit

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

What a goddamn egomaniac. King Bullet is one prancing show pony show-off.

People who think their shit is gold suffer unusually high rates of hepatitis B.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

I never saw it coming," I said bleakly. "I thought I was so smart. And each time I talked to her, I dismissed her as some dumb, scattered girl. Meanwhile, she was laughing and countering my moves every step of the way. It's humbling. I don't meet many people like that.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are.

Splendor'? What an asshole."     *

Religion is a solace to many people and it is even conceivable that some religion, somewhere, really is Ultimate Truth. But in many cases, being religious is merely a form of conceit.

Religion is a solace to many and it is conceivable that some religion, somewhere, is Ultimate Truth. But being religious is often a form of conceit. The

But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could levitate and god knows what else be impressed by engineering? If so would the Aswan Dam or a thousand miles of coral reef win first prize? Man's self awareness, sheer conceit. There was no way to prove that sperm whales and sequoias were not philosophers and poets exceeding any human merit?

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

Most Terran primates did not understand the multiplex nature of causality. They tended to think everything had a single cause. This simple philosophic error was so widespread on that planet that the primates were all in the habit of giving themselves, and other primates, more credit than was deserved when things went well. This made them all inordinately conceited.

Pike studied her. She was pretty and used to it, and the clothes and the hair indicated she liked being the center of attention, which would be a problem. The Savile Row suits were still piling up bags.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know." ? Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Toad] got so puffed up with conceit that he made up a song as he walked in praise of himself, and sang it at the top of his voice, though there was no one to hear it but him. It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed.

Pompoziteti eshte shume i lodhshem.

How conceited I was, and how mistaken!

We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.

Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, are puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.

The more stupid one is the more he thinks he knows.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.