Quotes with egotism

  • 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.

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  • Harold S. Geneen The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
    ― Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson An empire is an immense egotism.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
    ― P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Stanwyck Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
    ― Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • George V. Higgins Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
    ― George V. Higgins
    American author, lawyer and newspaper columnist (1939 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Marianne Moore Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
    ― Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Arnold Bennett If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
    ― Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Wallace Stevens 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.
    ― Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alexander Smith 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.
    ― Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • George Santayana Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
    ― George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
    ― Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Helen Rowland Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
    ― Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Mastery passes often for egotism.
    ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry van Dyke Modest egotism is the salt of conversation.
    ― Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
    Source: On War (1832)
    ― Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Graham Greene Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
    ― Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee 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.
    ― Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Marcel Proust The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
    ― Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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