Quotes About Self-importance

My experience as a police inspector has taught me that many people are able to regard themselves with inordinate fondness, no matter what heinous crimes they have committed. They care only about how they look to others, and whether they can get away with it.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Bütün yontulmam?? varl?klarda olduÄŸu gibi onda da gülünç bir kendini beÄŸenmiÅŸlik vard?.

Aber wie sollte ein so rascher Ruhm nicht einen so leeren Kopf beduseln? (...) Und dann, ist es nicht eigentlich verflucht leicht, sich für einen großen Menschen zu halten, wenn man nicht mit der leisesten Ahnung belastet ist, daß ein Rembrandt, ein Beethoven, ein Dante, ein Napoleon je gelebt haben?

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.

It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.

One of the hardest ideas for humans to accept,' he says, 'is that we are not the culmination of anything. There is nothing inevitable about our being here. It is part of our vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.

vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.

La vanité est si ancrée dans le cÅ"ur de l'homme qu'un soldat, un goujat, un cuisinier, un crocheteur se vante et veut avoir ses admirateurs ; et les philosophes mêmes en veulent. Et ceux qui écrivent contre veulent avoir la gloire d'avoir bien écrit ; et ceux qui lisent veulent avoir la gloire de l'avoir lu ; et moi qui écris ceci, ai peut-être cette envie ».

Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It's more of a weakness.

Don't let anybody tell you how great they are. It's all bullshit.

They had become too conceited to be capable of normal human feelings.

People who took themselves too seriously not only were no fun, but could also be very dangerous.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important.

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

don't waste your time being impressed by people (usually men) who are already adequately impressed by themselves.