If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. (72)
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Variant: It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.Epictetus
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.
Epictetus
Shaw's emotional development was one with his intellectual strength. His path led him into the thick of the scrimmage, where more spontaneous natures defend themselves with the usual weapons of malice, humility, bad temper or conceit. But Shaw used the death ray of imperturbability. His feelings were never hurt, his envy never aroused, his conceit was a transparent fiction, he never quarreled.
Jacques Barzun
Pride and conceit were the original sin of man.
Alain-Rene Lesage
Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.
Bion of Borysthenes
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Aesop
Epictetus
Epicurus
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