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.
  • 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.

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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.
    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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