Accompany Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

— Guru Gobind Singh

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and…

— George Eliot

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

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The ego hates losing – even to God.

— Richard Rohr

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both…

— Paulo Coelho

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

— Sharon Salzberg

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Furthermore, any teaching that puts the spotlight of attention on the workings of the ego will necessarily provoke egoic reaction, resistance, and attack.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such…

— George Santayana

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche