Quotes About Ego

And there was a beautiful view, But nobody could see. 'Cause everyone in the Island was saiyng, Look at me! Look at me!

and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me

Almost all people mistake ego approval for love. Because it is not love, it is not satisfying. Consequently, one continuously needs and demands it. And, this produces only frustration.

I suppose events are simply a sort of annotation of our feelings--the one might be deduced from the other. Time carries us (boldly imagining that we are discrete ego's modeling our own personal futures)--time carries us forward by the momentum of those feelings inside us of which we ourselves are least conscious.

Humility! The last trap that awaits the ego in search of absolute truth.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

Some people think that the world revolves around them but even the Sun is not the center of the Universe.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

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

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Macho does not prove mucho.

Isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.

We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

As long as man sees religion as a source of satisfaction for his own needs, it is not God whom he serves but his own self.