Quotes About Conceit

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue. Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy—perhaps the conceit and envy of your fathers—erupt from you as a flame and as the frenzy of revenge.

Those who inflate themselves are cursed When pricked by a small pin to burst.

This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

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

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world.

Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great? He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet. There is no greatness there.

Sak?n tepenize bir s?rça kö?k kurmay?n?z. Ama günün birinde nas?lsa böyle bir s?rça kö?k kurulursa, onun y?k?lmaz, devrilmez bir ?ey oldu?unu sanmay?n. En heybetlisini tuz buz etmek için üç be? kelle f?rlatmak yeter.

Güzelli?e hücum edenler içlerinde ve d??lar?nda güzelli?in en ufak bir eserini bile ta??mayanlar ve güzel bir ?ey yapmaya asla muktedir olmayanlard?r. Onlar böylece kendi mahrumiyetlerinin intikam?n? ald?klar?n? zannederler.

When everything you do is a success, you tend to start believing that the planets revolve around you, not the sun! And

When everything you do is a success, you tend to start believing that the planets revolve around you, not the sun!

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.

Thus thou must use to keep thyself to the first motions and apprehensions of things, as they present themselves outwardly; and add not unto them from within thyself through mere conceit and opinion.

La vanidad que se exalta bajo capa de modestia es la más insoportable de todas.