Top Conceit Quotes

  • …But even then you have to reckon with a criminal’s chief vice.”What is that?” Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail. – Agatha Christie

    …But even then you have to reckon with a criminal’s chief vice.”What is that?” Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.– Agatha Christie

  • What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? – Henry David Thoreau

    What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?– Henry David Thoreau

  • It is a mother’s noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child’s suffering and do it for him. – Kadiatou Diallo

    It is a mother’s noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child’s suffering and do it for him.– Kadiatou Diallo

  • We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. – Dejan Stojanovic

    We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.– Dejan Stojanovic

  • Premature independence is the daughter of conceit. – Idries Shah

    Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.– Idries Shah

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

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

  • We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. – Al Gore

    We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.– Al Gore