Quotes About Ego

Zis David Suchet, he zinks he knows me, but, of course, he does not. He is clever, but I am brilliant.

What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

La mayor vanidad que hallo entre los hijos de vanidad es, no contentos ser vanos en la vida, procuran aya memoria de sus vanidades después de la muerte.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

Virtue is never its own reward for the narcisisst

Computers think that they are smarter than us. But they're not!

I knew something else, too: It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

Sometimes you're the protagonist and someone else is the hero.

Take your ego out of your story.

Pride leads to down fall o f man.

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

I am the best person in the universe.

Vanity degrades your soul whereas modesty strengthen it

Thinking small is not humility.

Just because you consider yourself a genius does not mean you are smart

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

Advising gives a great illusion of superiority

Be the decision, not ego.

The ego says, win the world to find peace. The spirit says, win yourself over to find peace.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.