Quotes About Conceit

God would never make man in his image, because that would then make him as vain as what man is.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

That is the sweet frame of heart indeed—to lie low in the sense of your own vileness, yet to believe; to renounce all conceit of worthiness in ourselves, yet not therefore to renounce all hope of mercy, but the more speedily to make haste to Christ that woos us. All

are incurably conceited and pathologically unsure of themselves; they respond to stroking the way a cat does.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

We are happy in proportion as we believe ourselves and our life to be of value; and few people are so disinterested or so conceited as to trust wholly to their own judgment in this matter.

The arrogance of the intellectual. The delusion that we have more balls in the brain to juggle than most people.

Arrogance wasn't the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.

Celebrity is the mother of pretension.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.

What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you.

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.