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“I think the root of embarrassment is feeling totally misunderstood, wanting to explain yourself over and over but knowing that you won't make much…

— Alice Ozma

“We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to avoid.”

— Anthony Powell

“Others have criticized, and they have criticized themselves, into embarrassment.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know. They’re likely to be more concerned with appearances than actually achieving the goal;…

— Ray Dalio

“So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of timidity.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“was embarrassed that I once thought myself superior to him, stooping to sprinkle my wealth and wisdom into his lowly life.”

— Ron Hall

“You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man’s vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.”

— Mary Doria Russell

“Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in…

— Alain de Botton

“I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.”

— Virginia Woolf

“He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides