Quotes About Conceit

Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete.

After that comes the arrogance and sense of superiority that inevitably accompanies the production of successful lies (hypothetically successful lies—and that is one of the greatest dangers: apparently everyone is fooled, so everyone is stupid, except me. Everyone is stupid and fooled, by me—so I can get away with whatever I want). Finally, there is the proposition: "Being itself is susceptible to my manipulations. Thus, it deserves no respect.

Ana had experienced reactions like Ramon's in the mirrored salons of Sevilla society, in the waxed halls of the Convento de las Buenas Madres, on the streets of Cadiz and San Juan. It was a look that said, "I see you, but I deign not to speak to you." It said, "I see you but I do not share the high opinion you have of yourself." It said, "I see you but you're not who I want to see." It said, "To me, you don't exist.

Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am.

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall

The sky is a concave mirror in which Man sees his own distorted image and seeks to propitiate it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything.

je ne serai jamais qu'un écrivailleur honni, un vaniteux misérable. // l shall never be anything but a despised scribbler, a poor conceited fool.

They are brothers to the fox who boasted that he had made the hounds run....

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.