Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'