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La Rochefoucauld
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Bruce Barton
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
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SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.
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Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
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John Wooden
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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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.
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EMERSON: _Good-Bye._
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Gentlemen leaving Lenox Academy, Mass._ For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Jeff Melvoin
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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
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SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.
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But look! Amazement on thy mother sits; O step between her and her fighting soul: Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
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SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
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A strutting player,--whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage.
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Clive Staples Lewis
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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.
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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
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The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
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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.
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Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.
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"Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works." - Shakespeare
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