Quotes about Conceit

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

Talent is God-given: be humble. Fame is man-given: be thankful. Conceit is self-given: be careful.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Lest anyone think that any action, however required or useful, could be a source of pride, Sibbes preached that "it is a sottish conceit to think that we can fit ourselves for grace, as if a child in the womb could forward its natural birth. If God hath made us men, let us not make ourselves gods."107

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.

The greatest idol I will never truly remove is self.

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.