Quotes About Conceit

Do not raise the head too high unless you want it to be omitted.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.

Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity.

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Lest anyone think that any action, however required or useful, could be a source of pride, Sibbes preached that "it is a sottish conceit to think that we can fit ourselves for grace, as if a child in the womb could forward its natural birth. If God hath made us men, let us not make ourselves gods."107

he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Vanity, thy name is

I think I palsied fate; and I long took pride in this gift.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

All active-minded men the world over are boys at heart, be they generals or privates, and there are few things more stimulating or conducive to high morale and self-confidence than the knowledge that you have been chosen to do something about which others know nothing and which calls for a high standard of efficiency, integrity and courage. Basically, I suppose, it is conceit – a buccaneer complex.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

For a haughty man, all roads lead to arrogance!

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

What you believe might be wrong; what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!