82 Quotes About Conceit

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.

A very thin line separates wisdom from wickedness.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

If one overshoots the goal, one cannot hit it. If a bird will not come to its nest but flies higher and higher, it eventually falls into the hunter's net. He who in times of extraordinary salience of small things does not know how to call a halt, but restlessly seeks to press on and on, draws upon himself misfortune at the hands of gods and men, because he deviates from the order of nature.

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.

Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.