Quote by Dr Gregory House

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

— Anonymous

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably…

— M. Scott Peck

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

— Barbara Stanwyck

You simply cannot blame anyone or anything for causing you to be, think or respond in a certain way.

— Marshall Sylver

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

— Thomas Carlyle

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter…

— Claude Cahun

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

— Nicholas Kristof

Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“This narrative is the basis for the everyday narcissism that almost everyone shares. Why is this a form of narcissism? Because, as a result…

— Nancy Van Dyken

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence…

— Catharine MacKinnon

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel