Egotism Quotes

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

I know perfectly well my own egotism.

You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

There must be a God because he made me.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a great risk of egotism. Some people handle it well; some don't.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.