Quotes About Ego

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

Truth doesn't hurt. It is only pride that hurts after hearing the truth.

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't be surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

Ego-less, in time, you will no longer be God-less.

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

Blind-believers and staunch atheists have the same god - namely, a self-deluded, one's own shadow's bot.

In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

Come on, let your silly egotistical self be gone! And then only THAT WHICH IS will be shown.

Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.

That's where I started to discover that I had an ego," says Barlow. "I just became so involved with writing my own songs and really getting into my own sound of things. Just getting totally self-involved. It was pretty great.

That's where I started to discover that I had an ego," says Barlow. "I just became so involved with writing my own songs and really getting into my own sound of things. Just getting totally self-involved. It was pretty great. So when I played for Dinosaur, I was able to play for Dinosaur—do my thing and be quiet.

The great truth was that we were not the center of things, or others' lives, but only so in our own mind's eye. We were all obscure nobodies at our essence.

pride gets in the way of a lot of the right decisions

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Alone, Malcolm unrolled the strip of paper that had come with the sample. It was a piece of paper torn from a yellow legal pad. In block printing, it said: I WAS RIGHT AND YOU WERE WRONG.

The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves.

God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.

If Donald Trump is squealing like a stuck pig," replied Koch, "I must have done something right." Trump called the mayor a "moron," and Koch taunted him with "Piggy, piggy, piggy." The