Egocentric Quotes
39 quotes by 37 authors
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.
— Lizzie Brochere
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It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch…
— Noel Coward
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People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments…
— Bob Newhart
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The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like…
— John A. Keel
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In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform,…
— Ken Wilber
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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
— Maya Angelou
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What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual…
— Kenny Smith
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An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding…
— Carl Jung
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...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase…
— Ken Wilber
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Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
— Evan Esar
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Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We…
— Ashok Gangadean
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If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.
— Pope Francis
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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today…
— Terence McKenna
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The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies…
— Terence McKenna
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Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?
— Sylvia Plath
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The moment we use the term 'help', a kind of egocentric idea enters into us. If we help someone, that means we are in a…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in…
— Michael Eisner
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Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person.…
— Richard Rohr
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