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.
Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.
Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
An empire is an immense egotism.
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
It is never permissible to say, I say.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.
In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.