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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
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.
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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.
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
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.
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.
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.
To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.
Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.
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.
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
In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
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.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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.
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
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.
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.
Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.
I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie.
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
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.
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.
Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
