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• I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Teacher, Cat

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.104, Penguin

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• We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, America, Age

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.280, Library of America

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• I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

  Sarah Silverman

  Men, Doors, Talking

  "Fictional character: Sarah". "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic", February 11, 2005.

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• That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Thinking, Editors

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.101, 谷月社

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• Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

  Paul Watson

  Religion, Apes, Bunch

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• Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

  Mao Zedong

  Book, Cocky, Blow

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work: March 12, 1957”

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• I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.

  Rocky Marciano

  Inspirational, Lying, Said

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• For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they are too conceited to think that their opinion is going to change our behavior. A person with confidence won't be deterred! Keep after it!

  Jamie Eason

  Thinking, Records, Opinion

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• I'm too conceited for therapy.

  Glen Duncan

  Therapy

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• If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Sea, Self

  The Innocents Abroad Ch. III

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• It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Hysteria, Creating

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.642, Psychology Press

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• No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  People, Feelings, Littles

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• Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

  James Merrick

  Talking, Proud, Sparks

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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Wall, Humble, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Spiritual, Profound, Romance

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

  Theodore Gordon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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• Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.

  Epictetus

  Art, Hate, Men

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• Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Crazy, Silly, Motherhood

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• In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Passion, Men, Doubt

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

  J. I. Packer

  Proud, Sake, Theological

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• We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Bored, Egotism, Bores

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• Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Education, School, Men

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• Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

  D. A. Carson

  Worship, Sometimes, Wonder

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• When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

  Isa Bowman

  Time, Boys, Feet

  Isa Bowman (1900). “The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman”

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