Contentment Quote by Edwin Abbott Abbott

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

— Amit Ray

“from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority.”

— Lao Tzu

“In a world lost in the darkness of ignorance, deception and confusion, a self-educated human being with integrity is the Light.”

— Gavin Nascimento

“he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.”

— Lao Tzu

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by…

— Patrick O'Brian

“You can never judge yourself by your own standards and your own righteousness, but only in light of His righteousness.”

— Jonathan Cahn

“He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be…

— Leonard Ravenhill

“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