Conceit is incompatible with understanding

Conceit is incompatible with understanding

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am read more

These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.

In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.

In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.