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Quotations by Subject: Conceit
(Related Subjects: Humility)
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Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Frog and the Ox
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.: Bernard Bailey
Conceit is God's gift to little men.: Bruce Barton
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.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.: John Blake
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)


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