Belittle Quote by Michel de Montaigne

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he…

— Michel de Montaigne

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

— Michel de Montaigne

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes…

— Ernest Hello

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

— Michel de Montaigne

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

— Josh Billings

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Whoever gives his true self away does do with words”

— Alice Hoffman

“It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one’s own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets…

— Murasaki Shikibu

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and…

— Dave Donovan

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives…

— Max Stirner

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained,…

— Confucius