#egotism

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. ↗

— John Milius

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Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. ↗

— George V. Higgins

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Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. ↗

— George Santayana

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