Conceit Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

— Aesop

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

— Thomas Carlyle

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

— Byron Katie

“Self-realization or self-awareness is not a destination - it is a relentless experience - it is a psychological process of ceaseless evolution.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The Self is the internal abundance that can be realized at our will any time. It is capable of lifting us up from difficulties…

— Dhruva Bhargava

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

— B. F. Skinner

“When people find themselves in these conditions they lose their self-consciousness and sense of time. They report that the task itself becomes the end”

— James P. Womack

“Contemplation, on the contrary, is the experiential grasp of reality as subjective, not so much “mine” (which would signify “belonging to the external self”)…

— Thomas Merton

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens…

— Thomas Merton

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

— Marianne Moore

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

— Ramana Maharshi