Advantage Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

— Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own…

— Ayn Rand

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

“So, he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find…

— Lao Tzu

The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire.

— Vikrant Parsai

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

— Plutarch

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The “noble” person has a completely naïve and non-reflective awareness of his own value and of his fullness of being, an obscure conviction which…

— Max Scheler

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

— Cornel West

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but…

— Michael Faraday

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson