Best Egotism Quotes
252 Egotism quotes by 191 unique authors
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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an…
— Marcel Proust
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a…
— Brian Aldiss
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
— Germaine Greer
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
— Barbara Stanwyck
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Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
— Emma Goldman
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One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing,…
— Mother Teresa
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Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It…
— Camille Paglia
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A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget…
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
— Unknown Author
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Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person…
— Roy Baumeister
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Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
— Irving Layton
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the…
— Alma Gluck
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Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to…
— William V. Shannon
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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it…
— John Milius
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies.…
— Lewis Hyde
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The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord's voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge,…
— Radhanath Swami
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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I own and operate a ferocious ego.
— Bill Moyers
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Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
— George V. Higgins
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Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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