quotations about conceit
Humility does not mean that conceit doesn't arise in the mind; it means that conceit is met with the wisdom of not taking the inflation personally. Usually when we are feeling inflated and conceited, we believe the ego's insistence that we are better or worse than others. Humility is a practice that allows us to override that insistence and arrive at a wise relationship to the ego. It takes constant vigilance, because the mind is constantly creating (and attempting to give permanence to) a self out of that aspect of our experience that we call ego, constantly creating conceit.
NOAH LEVINE
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The Heart of the Revolution
Conceit is pride and arrogance on steroids.
MICHELLE SINGLETARY
The Power to Prosper
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 26:12
Involvement with conceit is a disease, involvement with conceit is a tumor, involvement with conceit is a dart. Therefore ... we will dwell with a mind in which conceit has been struck down.
BUDDHA
Salayatanasamyutta
Conceit is a great help to a shallow wit.
E. P. DAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Those who are talentless themselves are the first to talk about the conceit of others; for mediocrity bears but one flower--ENVY.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims
Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.
DAVID KINNAMAN
UnChristian
Self-conceit is a most dangerous shelf
Where many have made shipwreck unawares;
He who doth trust too much unto himself
Can never fail to fall in many snares.
EARL OF STIRLING
attributed, Treasury of Wisdom
I've seen many conceited people in my time, and I've always believed that the more someone thinks of himself on the outside, the less that he actually thinks of himself on the inside.
DAN BAEL
Common Sense for the Common Man
Conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a center is to a circle.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
From Day to Day with Holmes
Be not wise in your own conceits.
BIBLE
Romans 12:16
No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.
DAVID WHYTE
Consolations
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.
ELLEN TERRY
The Story of My Life
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPE
letter to Mr. Walsh, Jul. 2, 1706
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
The Sun Watches the Sun
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
By focusing on the trivial or superficial, conceited people do not distinguish between features for which they have responsibility and those with which they merely happened to be born. They base much of their self-esteem on characteristics that are beyond their control rather than on the results of their own efforts.
GROLIER EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
Ethics and Values: Volume 2
Conceit grows as naturally as the hair on one's head, but it takes longer to come out.
THOMAS C. HALIBURTON
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Conceited people are never without a certain degree of harmless satisfaction, wherewith to flavor the waters of life.
MME. DELUZY
attributed, Day's Collacon
He was so conceited that he wore his mirrored sunglasses backwards.
MARY ANN MADDEN
New York Magazine, February 16, 1981