Best Conceit Quotes

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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.

Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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.

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.

Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.

I thought at the time that I couldn’t be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that’s a common conceit, that you’ve already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Conceit may bring about one’s own downfall.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

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?

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

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.

The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That’s why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

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.

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political – satirical – conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

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.

A man–poet, prophet, or whatever be may be–readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

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.

conceit is the devil’s horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

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.