Quotes About Conceit

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

It's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves.

That, Jim Knee, is what comes from showing off," said Septimus, sounding uncannily like Marcia.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

The only sin is pride.

Mingling grandiosity and short-sightedness in dangerous measure.

There's pride and then there's stupidity.

For where men have made the earth that is trodden underfoot, and have largely veiled the heavens themselves, it is but natural that they should think that they have made everything, and that it is they who rule it.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,' says C. S. Lewis.

It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them anything, you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they will know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellow-men.

Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this thing is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.

Hatred stems from pride because vanity makes us detest and have contempt for anything or anyone who detracts from our importance.

Pampered vanity is a hotter thing perhaps than starved pride.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.