Conceit Quotes - Page 6

• An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Ignorance, Self, Failing

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• One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

  Bill Vaughan

  Pride, Thinking

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• Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

  Norm MacDonald

  Mind, Succeed, Flattery

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• There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Men, May

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• If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Conceited, Sea

  The Innocents Abroad Ch. III

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• There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

  William Hazlitt

  Harmony, Hours, Serene

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.67

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• 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

  Littles, Facts, Acquaintance

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

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• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

  Charles Kingsley

  Blessed, Fighting, Self

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Gentleman, Would Be

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 2,

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• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

  Mark Twain

  Zero, Hard Work, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Science, Views

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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• To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both."—Bacon: "Advancement of Learning".

  Charles Darwin

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.

  Pete Hamill

  Song, Mean, Hair

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• I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• They are but beggars that can count their worth.

  William Shakespeare

  Beggar

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.297

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• Humility is the worst form of conceit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Humility, Form, Worst

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• Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Self, Enemy Of Progress, Enemy

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IV, 50,

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• Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Eye, Men, Littles

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.27

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• Isolation breeds conceit.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Solitude, Isolation

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Firsts, Sin

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• Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

  Aesop

  May, Downfall

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• Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Men, Stronger

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.55, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.

  Peter Thiel

  Dream, World, May

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• Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.

  Zicheng Hong

  Passion, Mind, Taoism

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• 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!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Believe, Doubt

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