Quotes About Self-importance

Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns need a Copernican reminder that they are not the center of the universe either!

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something.

The American is not intolerable because he believes he is important individually, but because he possesses, insofar as he is an American, the solution to every problem.

Not intelligence but vanity reproaches "intellectual isolation".

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

A fool can always find a greater fool to admire him

Los Pilotos tienen un concepto muy exagerado de su propia importancia, pensó D'mahl. ¿Y en qué los convierte eso? - Tres... dos... uno... En seres humanos.

I suppose that's because we've been displaced again from the center of the universe. We human beings, I mean. Down through history, in myth and even in science, we've kept putting ourselves in the center, and then being evicted.

Every narcissist is a hero and a legend in his own mind.

Ljudi od vrijednosti nikada nisu nadmeni. ?ovjek uvijek ima onoliko arogancije, koliko mu nedostaje samosvijesti. Nadmenost je samo sredstvo da se vješta?kim ponižavanjem bližnjega, na silu uzdigne samosvijest.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap." (p. 320)

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important

Pride is a foolish thing, but it is a powerful force.

There comes a moment when an individual who is too honest to take refuge in the old illusion of self-importance is suspended agonizingly between the flat sky and the flat earth, and prayer is no more that a slight gumminess on the roof of the mouth.

I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.

Men delude themselves into thinking that the events in which they participate are of particular significance to history, but they rarely are. One empire is the same as another.

Trying to show people how talented and bright you are is the best way to make an idiot of yourself, and we ended up doing that with flying colors.

Why was it that the young were always convinced they had invented sex?

Grandiose patients often imagine that we know more about them than we do.

Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”