Conceit spoils the finest genius.
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
From the very beginning- from the first moment, I may almost say- of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Those who serve the True Guru are very beautiful they cast off the filth of selfishness and conceit.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
When selfishness and conceit are eradicated from within, then there is no attachment to Maya.
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learns his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance - these qualities belong to those of demonic nature.
Without God, how can I find peace There is nowhere else to go. Those who have tasted the sublime essence of His Love, remain satisfied and fulfilled. They renounce their selfishness and conceit, and they pray, God, please attach me to the hem of Your robe. Those whom the Husband Lord has united with Himself, shall not be separated from Him again.
The body is wild, and the mind is foolish. Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, your life is passing away.
Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us this is rather a dangerous way to put it let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says, 'It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and' then, if possible, to have its worth recognized.'
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and ve
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Renounce sexual desire and promiscuity, and give up emotional attachment. Only then shall you obtain the Immaculate Lord amidst the darkness of the world. Renounce selfishness, conceit and arrogant pride, and your love for your children and spouse.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Subduing selfishness and conceit, he is united with the Lord.
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
I tell thee what, Antonio-
I love thee, and 'tis my love that speaks-
There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
And do a wilful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit;
As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark.
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.
I serve my True Guru, and meditate on Him all day and night. Renouncing selfishness and conceit, I seek His Sanctuary, and speak sweet words to Him.
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
Even in common people, conceit has the virtue of making them cheerful the man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severally unequalled, is almost sure to be a good-humored person, though liable to be tedious at times.
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance they are but beggars who can count their worth.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
It appears that with his curious voice, his ways, he decided to brazen it out, to be himself with an ornamental courage and an impressive conceit,
I think it could definitely be disturbing. It's taken the central theme and it's definitely the same story, but the elements of the book have been changed quite a lot. It's still set 30 years in the future and the conceit is still the same, that no one has had a baby anywhere for eighteen years and our reluctant hero has ended up linked with the only pregnant girl on the planet. That's still the same, but Alfonso's done a really fascinating, unusual exploration of where things could be going, and that's still very, very strong in the movie. It's a very unusual take. People are assuming it's a sci-fi movie but it's almost the opposite of that. It's like now, but worse. It's the environment we're living in. It's not futuristic. It's like things have not ended up that great and we're in a world where there are no children, which is a pretty bleak place. Half the movie's a chase movie, really, but it's in a really extraordinary vision of the future.
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
As he submits to God's Will, and surrenders to the Creator, he is rid of selfishness and conceit. And when, O Nanak, he is merciful to all beings, only then shall he be called a Muslim.
Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, she wanders around the world, but her wealth and property will not go with her.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
One who eliminates selfishness and conceit is redeemed in the Court of the Lord.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Blessed is his coming into the world, he banishes self conceit, and is acclaimed as true in the Court of the True Lord.
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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