Quotes About Conceit

Learning is a another name of vanity, It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

The greatest idol I will never truly remove is self.

I had to ask. "Do you really think everything I write down is about you?" Thomas said, "Well, this next bit had better be. I insist." It is very bad for Thomas's character when he gets his own way all the time. That's why I'm going to omit the next bit. If he has forgotten it in fifty years or so, too bad for him. I won't have.

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

You would be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.

If there is one thing I will not abide, it is the folly of a willful pride.

You know you're clever. That's your weakness. You assume you know what you're getting into, but you don't.

Pride not only precedes a fall, but often hangs around a while longer to see what other damage it can do.

I felt, watching Jim Morrison, that I could do that. I can't say why I thought this. I had nothing in my experience to make me think that would ever be possible, yet I harbored that conceit. I felt both kinship and contempt for him. I could feel his self-consciousness as well as his supreme confidence. He exuded a mixture of beauty and self-loathing, and mystic pain, like a West Coast Saint Sebastian. When

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

One sees many pretty young Beat couples. (I think they are pretty; some people think they are hideous.) Since conceit and "proving" are not major factors, there is affection. Homosexuality and bisexuality are not regarded as a big deal.

I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.

The very rich only admire themselves.

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride

For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.

We have heard of Moabís pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.

We have heard of Moabís pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.