{"topic":"conceit","quotes":[{"quote":"Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.","author":"Aesop"},{"quote":"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.","author":"Aesop"},{"quote":"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.","author":"Bernard Bailey"},{"quote":"Conceit is God's gift to little men.","author":"Bruce Barton"},{"quote":"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.","author":"Epictetus"},{"quote":"The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.","author":"John Blake"},{"quote":"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.","author":"Joseph Addison"},{"quote":"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.","author":"Marie Ebner von Eschenbach"},{"quote":"For God hates utterly<br>The bray of bragging tongues.","author":"Sophocles"},{"quote":"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.","author":"Thomas Carlyle"}]}