Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people.… — Muriel Lester Copy Share Image
If you really love someone and they does not value you and you have no importance in their lives then simple go… — Muhammad Noman Copy Share Image
“I was in Sarasota, Florida, on a spring-break trip with my friends Bruce and Karen Moore. Bruce and I were waiting on… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
“We need not be afraid of learning to know ourselves, fearing it would come down to disappointment. Remaining humble allows us to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Packing is one of those many things that I feel I know more about than any other person living. (It surprises me… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Being Grateful Will Always Make You Happy. If You're Finding It Hard To Be Grateful For Anything, Sit Down Close Your Eyes… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I may not be the MOST IMPORTANT person in your life. But, I just hope that one day when you hear my… — J Czhang Copy Share Image
Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
If you smoke then smoke, if you drink then drink on, if your not a virgin then that's not my business because… — Mario Tomasello Copy Share Image
“The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you're making art, there's a lot of self-importance attached to that, but at the end of the day, you can always… — Glen Berger Copy Share Image
Never let someone else make you feel less than you are worth...We are all special and deserve to be treated as such...Be… — Kat Tremblay Copy Share Image
When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the… — Larry King Copy Share Image
Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the… — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Copy Share Image
“the enemy that's going to paralyze you with fear is your own sense of self-importance and your excessive ego. The thought of… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
