#conceit

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#faults #friendship #life #reality #friendship

His head was thrown back, his chest heaving, and the look on his face was more indicative of pain than pleasure. Rosemary snatched her fingers back, certain she’d misunderstood the technique somehow. But he whimpered piteously and she realized, no, she couldn’t have misunderstood. Because (a) she was a genius, and (b) it just wasn’t that complicated ↗

— Louisa Edwards

#sexual-naivety #love

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#astronomy #conceit #earth #folly #human-nature

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#ego #self-worth #ego

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too. ↗

— Nova Ren Suma

#vanity #vanity

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#conceit #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #measure

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#conceit #danger #finest #genius #gifts

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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#conceit #consciousness #danger #even #finest

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#every #every man #man #right #successful

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ↗

— John Wooden

#be grateful #be humble #careful #conceit #fame