Quotes About Conceit

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

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.

The only crime is pride.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.

Durante nuestra estancia infinitesimalmente breve en la diminuta mota que es nuestro planeta, nos preocupamos y nos pavoneamos de esto o de aquello, y después ya no se oye más de nosotros.

He nods solemnly and repeats the stock response of the Housing Committee whenever they address the perpetual shortage of apartments in Leningrad. "Privacy is a conceit of degenerate societies.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

One of the deadliest and most venomous destructive concoction is created by mixing false pride with ignorance and power. Regretfully there are more victims of this poisonous formulation than the poison itself.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

He who thinks they know it all, is bound to take the greatest fall.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

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

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

One cannot find that which never existed!

On almost all of which counts he was in error, but since no one was ever likely to tell him so, there was no harm done.

But at the time, I honestly didn't think I was hurting anyone, not even myself. I didn't think much at all, in fact. Yes, I was gorgeous and lucky in love, but I truly believed that I was also a decent person who deserved her good fortune.

I flash a fake smile of my own, refraining from telling her what I'm really thinking: that it's an unwise karmic move to go around feeling superior to other mothers. Because before she knows it, her little angel could become a tattooed teenager hiding joints in her designer handbag and doling out blow jobs in the backseat of her BMW.