#egotism

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ↗

— Frank Leahy

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction. ↗

— Jetta Carleton

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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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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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