Best Egotism Sayings
252 Egotism quotes by 191 unique authors
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It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.
— Guru Arjan
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough.…
— Raymond Chandler
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Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting…
— Ashley Montagu
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So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.
— Hector Bianciotti
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Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
— Evan Esar
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Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
— Evan Esar
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Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.
— Evan Esar
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Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he…
— Evan Esar
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The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the…
— Richard M. Weaver
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic,…
— Christina Stead
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All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
— Miles Franklin
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To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
— Gore Vidal
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Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These…
— Tom Robbins
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'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals…
— Huston Smith
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Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
— Gloria Naylor
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An empire is an immense egotism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
— Marianne Moore
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