Top 100 Quotes About Conceit
#1. Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.
Aesop
#2. However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts is the kind of conceit that only, well, an intellectual could possibly believe.
Ross Douthat
#3. Some drawings are better than others ... Some are utterly spoiled ... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing ... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.
Walter J. Phillips
#4. Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#5. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Anonymous
#6. What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism p 61
Abraham Verghese
#7. The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.
Douglas Alexander
#8. This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.
David Niven
#10. Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid
thyself of, when thou wilt.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
Dejan Stojanovic
#12. Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ... Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.
Laurie Beth Jones
#13. We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#15. Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
Oswald Chambers
#16. Grief. Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured.
Noah Hawley
#17. Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.
Matt Mullenweg
#19. No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly
C.S. Lewis
#20. 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.
Ludwig Von Mises
#23. None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
#24. In your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face.
Robin Hobb
#25. simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well,
Walter Scott
#26. The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
Sextus Empiricus
#27. Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
William Hazlitt
#28. The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
Orson Welles
#29. Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#30. Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.
Elizabeth Wordsworth
#31. When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#33. The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.
Tom Brokaw
#34. A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#35. What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
Henry David Thoreau
#37. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
Thomas Carlyle
#39. There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.
Benvenuto Cellini
#40. Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather
#41. Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
Paul Hauck
#42. Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
Adriana Trigiani
#43. Stay focused on your goal and never let your mind cloud you with doubt - or conceit for that matter.
Giuseppe Bianco
#44. Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind.
H.G.Wells
#45. 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 ...
Dean Koontz
#46. Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Ezra Taft Benson
#47. There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.
Charles Bukowski
#48. Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Myrtle Reed
#49. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Alexander Pope
#50. With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
James Laughlin
#51. Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
Cecil Beaton
#52. Even at a distance, her mouth showed the small pursed conceit of a remark in the making.
Don DeLillo
#53. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe.
Lionel Shriver
#54. Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?
'Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.' Prov. xxvi. 4.
'Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.' Prov. xxvi. 5.
Samuel Grant Oliphant
#56. It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
Charles Darwin
#57. All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
T. E. Hulme
#58. Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Ellen Terry
#59. The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything ...
Robert G. Ingersoll
#60. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
Aesop
#61. And I am sick for want of sleep;
So sick, that I can half-believe
The soundless river pouring from the cave
Is neither strong nor deep;
Only an image fancied in conceit.
Philip Larkin
#62. I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.
Brian Spellman
#63. Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.
Mao Zedong
#64. Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.
William Shakespeare
#65. Religion is a solace to many people and it is even conceivable that some religion, somewhere, really is Ultimate Truth. But in many cases, being religious is merely a form of conceit.
Robert A. Heinlein
#66. We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
William Hazlitt
#67. Because wrapped up in conceit the size of Jerar was my Darren. Somewhere. Deep, deep down. And that part I loved. With every bit of my being.
I just vehemently hated the rest.
Rachel E. Carter
#69. The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' from 1895. Chambers's conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad.
Paul Di Filippo
#70. Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Leo Tolstoy
#72. Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit ... which I cannot but applaud.
Steven Erikson
#73. Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
Paul Klee
#74. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
Jane Austen
#75. This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.
Blaise Pascal
#76. We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
Al Gore
#77. What is the source of this premature anxiety to establish fundamental laws? It is the old conceit of being wiser than all posterity - wiser than those who will have had more experience, - the old desire of ruling over posterity - the old recipe for enabling the dead to chain down the living
Jeremy Bentham
#78. 3Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Anonymous
#79. Every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
Margaret Oliphant
#80. Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.
Bobby Darin
#81. With purpose to be dressed in an opinion of wisdom gravity profound conceit as who should say 'I am Sir Oracle and when I ope my lips let no dog bark.' 1.1
William Shakespeare
#82. Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.
Oswald Chambers
#83. God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.
E.B. White
#85. Its an arrogant conceit of humans to think that they can "give" justice in whatever capacity. Karma would boomerang sooner or later and you are not required to meddle with it. Laws don't ensure justice but ensures fear of punishment in men much like religion instills fear of God.
Nikhil Sharda
#86. For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.
Elin Hilderbrand
#88. No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.
Sweety Shinde
#90. It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.
Lionel Shriver
#91. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
William Goldman
#92. If I'm conceited enough to believe I'm invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I'm not as wonderful as I thought I was.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#93. So the dubbed conceit
Played nursery of cheat
To clear the I of sleet ...
Allen Tate
#94. The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?
Patrick Rothfuss
#95. Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
Napoleon Hill
#96. There are a sort of men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
And do a willful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
William Shakespeare
#97. Awards movies are normally sort of ... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.
David Fincher
#98. Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
Thomas A. Edison
#99. Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.
Robin Hobb
#100. Because to me, what is interesting about this movie [Real Steel] is its combination of relationship naturalism with. It's like a single conceit movie. The world and the people are very much the way we know them to be, but this sport has evolved.
Shawn Anthony Levy
