Quotes
Quotes about Egotism
Egotism: Doing a crossword puzzle with a pen.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.
Egotismâusually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
An empire is an immense egotism.
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
