A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.
Richelle E. GoodrichStichwörter: conceit pride gossip boasting bragging richelle haughty richelle-goodrich
The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych."
[Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013]
Stichwörter: writers self-importance conceit authors novels grandeur critique reviews novelists diptychs
Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.
Kellie ElmoreStichwörter: beauty vanity arrogance conceit self-awareness pride ego quotes beautiful image appearances social-media appearance vain egos arrogant quotes-about-appearances quotes-about-vanity
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 SaganStichwörter: science nationalism human-nature conceit earth space pride astronomy folly alien
There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE FOUNDATION OF ALL BEING, is some powerful and reassuring and accessible image of OURSELVES... and that, more than any of their particular factual inaccuracies - is what bothers me the most about them. It is precisely the business of resisting that demand, it is precisely the business of approaching the world with open and authentic wonder, and with a sharp, cold eye, and singularly intent upon the truth, that's called science.
David Z. AlbertStichwörter: science truth world philosophy wonder human conceit impulse resist authentic
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...
Robert G. IngersollStichwörter: honesty knowledge understanding conceit learn willing
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