Quotes About Conceit

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Tis the ignorant who boast.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

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.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding.

there is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offences, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom; and he who is under the influence of the latter fancies that he knows all about matters of which he knows nothing.

Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.

They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance

Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...

It's the incessant need to know more and more and yet still more, to know everything, that is the fast track to destruction. Knowledge is a good thing, Jeffrey, but the arrogance that so often comes with knowledge is ultimately our undoing. Don't be undone, Jeffrey. Do not be undone by pride in your knowledge.

What did she do?" "Ruined everything. Out of pride.

The woman had her nose so far up in the air that she was in danger of drowning in a rainstorm.

Il y a de la folie à courir le hasard de devenir fou par vanité.

The worst quality in a man is a really big ego - that would turn me off.

I'm a very egotistical person.

Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

Our sense of honor is responsible for our exaggerated sensitiveness and touchiness; and if there is the conceit in us with which some foreigners charge us, that, too, is a pathological outcome of honor. Have

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!