Conceited Quotes - Page 3

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands.

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.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.