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conceit
«Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.»
Author: John McCain
(Politician, Senator)
| About:
Glory,
Principles
| Keywords:
conceit, decoration, decorations, rely, rerun, reruns, valor
«Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.»
«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
| Keywords:
arrogance, artificially, conceit, conceits, dignity, falsehoods, increases, maintained, network, patriotism, robs, self respect, superstition, The Network, with conceit
«Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
accompanied, cant, canted, canting, cants, catch phrase, coats, conceit, genuine, phrases, profitable, propositions, The Cant, varnish, varnished, waterproof
«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.»
«Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
conceit, Laws of nature, madmen, prig, prigs, quarter, sakes, the laws of nature, three-quarter
«I am egotistical and conceited, and my intellect is ignorant. Meeting the Guru, my selfishness and conceit have been abolished. The illness of egotism is gone, and I have found peace.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
abolished, conceit, conceited, egotism, egotistical, guru, gurus, illness, selfishness, The Guru, The Illness
«I offer my mind and body, and I renounce my selfishness and conceit; I walk in Harmony with the Will of the True Guru. I am forever a sacrifice to my Guru, who has attached my consciousness to the Lord.»
«Everything happens according to the Lord's Will; what can the poor people do? Attached to self-conceit and duality, they have forgotten their Lord and Master.»
