David Lee Roth
Musician
"I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults."
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Conceit
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits."
Aesop
Fabulist
"Conceit may bring about one's own downfall."
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"A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it."
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"From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit."
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"Humility is the worst form of conceit."
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"Conceit is incompatible with understanding."
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"I am not in the roll of common men."
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"It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with."
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"I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life."
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"Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth."
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"Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit."
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"They are but beggars that can count their worth."
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"In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit."
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"We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift."
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"So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet."
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"There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself."
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