Quotes About Ego

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

I decided that you didn't really need money, power, success, religion, a spouse, or kids to be happy. All you really needed was to feel superior.

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.

Dare we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us?

Cosmologists have plenty of ego. How could you not when your job is to deduce what brought the universe into existence?

Leonardo da Vinci would be in full agreement: "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion.

Children do not yet know that the world doesn't revolve around them.

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Most things are not about you, though they do reveal how you think about yourself.

Every problem had a solution; every dispute had a compromise; every ego had a way to be stroked.

In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles

the FBI philosophy is, 'Whatever makes any other law enforcement agency or institution look bad makes us look better.

I don't really care to be a movie star.

I always felt like a movie star.

Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.