Quotes About Conceit

Confidence is ignorance," advised the centaur. "If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know

To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.' It will perhaps be said that this virgin curiosity is no more than unconscious physical desire; but what does it matter, if this desire sharpens the mind and deadens conceit?

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.

Depending on who it is, but I can't stand men who brag about themselves, and all they do all day is talk about themselves.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

And," Mae added, voice prim, "if you try to brag about this, no one's going to believe you. No one will believe someone like me would sleep with someone like you." That was the gut punch. It was also the last word, because he couldn't muster another response.

hubris. It means extreme confidence or arrogance to the point that one loses touch with reality and overestimates one's abilities.

John Wooden said, "Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.

she'd also said more than once that I wasn't half as clever as I thought I was. Considering what I thought of myself, that still made me pretty damn clever.

Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.

Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

The bigger it bloats, the harder it falls.

Just as the rag doll wanted to be an eagle, the donkey a lion and the monkey a queen, the zero put on airs and pretended to be a digit.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

We are all of us very arrogant and conceited about running down other people's ghosts but just as ignorant and barbaric and superstitious about our own.

Iedere inspanning die zelfverheerlijking tot uiteindelijk doel heeft, moet op een ramp uitdraaien.

intelligence combined with arrogance equals ignorance.