Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're… — Ellen Stern
The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even… — Unknown Author
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. — Robert Motherwell
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies… — W. Somerset Maugham
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The… — Oscar Wilde
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality...… — E E Cummings
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.… — Thomas Jefferson
It gives the guys confidence and self-belief. Two or three years ago I think we would have lost it. The confidence that we have, we… — Kieran Crowley
The primary opportunity is to use a model or paradigm for describing ADD that's not disease-based and doesn't imply brain damage or what many children… — Thom Hartmann
Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just… — Rebecca Walker
As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party… — Keith Olbermann
I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look… — Lena Dunham
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges.… — Marshall Ulrich
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is… — Ryan Hall
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to… — Nick Flynn
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this… — Richard J. Foster
There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in… — Walther Rathenau
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned… — Peter Matthiessen
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat. — David Quammen
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its… — William Kennedy
Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the… — Elif Safak
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was… — Peter Kreeft
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. — Michael Sandel

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