19 Quotes on Egotism
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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It has always seemed strange to me... 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.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Author:
Barbara Stanwyck
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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.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
Author:
George Santayana
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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.
Author:
John Milius
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Author:
Frank Leahy
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Author:
Germaine Greer
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Mastery passes often for egotism.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Author:
Harold Geneen
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Author:
Robert Frost
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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Author:
Arnold Bennett
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