Egotism Quotes
252 quotes by 200 authors
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse…
— Karen Armstrong
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
— Karen Armstrong
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
— Madonna Ciccone
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
— Pope John Paul II
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
— Oscar Wilde
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The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride…
— Charles B. Macdonald
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
— Victor Hugo
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the…
— William Hazlitt
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Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
— Albert Einstein
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
— Charles de Gaulle
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The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes…
— Rajneesh
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The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar...
— Robertson Davies
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Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
— Penelope Keith
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
— Germaine Greer
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
— Frank Leahy
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Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. ... When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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