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"Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my Conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am." »Bhartrihari
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"Conceit causes more conversation than wit." »La Rochefoucauld
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"The less their ability, the more their Conceit." »Ahad HaAm
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men." »Bruce Barton
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"Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction." »Aesop
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"The smaller the mind the greater the Conceit." »Aesop
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"The world tolerates Conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else." »John Blake
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"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." »John Wooden
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"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
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"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, Discourses
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"Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held Conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me" »Jeff Melvoin
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"What you believe might be wrong; what you don’t believe might be right! Don’t be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid Conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with Conceit." »Author Unknown
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"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle Conceit." »Goldoni
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"Whilom, ere youth?s Conceit had waned, methought Answers to all life?s problems I had wrought; But now, grown old and wise, too late I see My life is spent, and all my lore is nought." »Omar Khayyam
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"You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own Conceit, instead of truly wise." »Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275
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"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable Conceit and incurable ignorance among men." »Clive Staples Lewis
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