Self Congratulation Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it…
— Clifford Geertz
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There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look…
— Alexander Kotov
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New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities…
— John Gregory Dunne
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure…
— Julian Barnes
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If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the…
— Steve Erickson
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It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at…
— Thomas Harris
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The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
— April Gornik
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Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what…
— Charlie Pierce
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Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness, not by self-congratulation.
— John Stott
Who Wrote These Self Congratulation Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Self Congratulation Quotes as follows: