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Self Quotes by Dean Koontz
- Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek…
- The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if…
- In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
- In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
- Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it,…
- The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between…
- From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts…
- Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a…
- But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead,…
- Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth…
- I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings,…
- Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
- Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster