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Letter "C" » conceits
«Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.»
«Conceit is God's gift to little men»
«Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.»
Author: Hartman Rector, Jr.
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Self-esteem
| Keywords:
conceit, conceits, disease, esteem, self esteem, sick, weirdest, with conceit
«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?»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Science
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conceits, deflated, deflates, deflating, disservice, Long To, with conceit
«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.»
Author: Emma Goldman
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arrogance, artificially, conceit, conceits, dignity, falsehoods, increases, maintained, network, patriotism, robs, self respect, superstition, The Network, with conceit
«Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.»
«Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.»
«For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? / For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.»
«Conceit is incompatible with understanding»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Conceit
| Keywords:
conceit, conceits, incompatible, understanding, with conceit
«Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
| Keywords:
conceits, fang, fangs, germinate, germinated, germinates, germinating, learns, luxury, The Wolf, vanities, wolf
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