The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. — William R. Bradford Copy Share Image
We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed… — Samantha Dunn Copy Share Image
Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client. — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time...… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh,… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
God’s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur. — David Chase Copy Share Image
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by… — Paul Buchheit Copy Share Image
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean… — Hans Børli Copy Share Image
To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but… — John Gabriel Stedman Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
“By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
