Egoism

"The idol of your self is the mother of all idols."

Rumi

Egoism

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch."

Anuj Somany

Egoism

Rating: 8.81 (Number of Voters: 16)

"It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish."

Carol Green "House M.D." - "Adverse Events"

Egoism

Forgiveness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Egoism

Love

Rating: 8.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

George Bernard Shaw

Egoism

God and Religion

Rating: 6.43 (Number of Voters: 7)

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Mahatma Gandhi

Egoism

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being."

Lynn M. Little

Egoism

Human

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

""Me", "Myself" and "Mine" - Holy Trinity of selfishness."

Kazimierz Matan

Egoism

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To grow you need to understand that the most important word in the world is not the word "me"."

Kazimierz Matan

Egoism

Human

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Some people live as if Copernicus did not exist - they think that everything revolves around them. "

Kazimierz Matan

Egoism

Human

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally."

W. C. Fields

Egoism

Good and Evil

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"An optimist can always see the bright side of the other guy's problems."

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Egoism

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"

Egoism

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Most of life's shadows result from standing in your own light."

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Egoism

Rating: 5.43 (Number of Voters: 7)

"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

Frank Buchman "Remaking the World"

Egoism

Justice

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

Michel de Montaigne "Essays"

Egoism

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

Benjamin Franklin

Egoism

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

William Hazlitt "Complete Works"

Egoism

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

Egoism

Life and Death

Memory

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

Henry Louis Mencken "Minority Report: H.L. Mencken`s Notebooks"

Egoism

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know."

Titus Maccius Plautus "The Comedy of Asses"

Egoism

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter."

Baruch Spinoza

Egoism

Human

Oration and Silence

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

Henry Louis Mencken

Egoism

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle."

Mahatma Gandhi

Egoism

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Self-love is the source of all our other loves."

Pierre Corneille "Titus and Berenice"

Egoism

Love

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends."

Mason Cooley

Egoism

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Aphorisms"

Egoism

Human

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies."

George Bernard Shaw

Egoism

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have."

Don Juan Manuel

Egoism

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."

Angela Carter "Wise Children"

Egoism

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."

Sir William Osler "Science and Immortality"

Egoism

Human

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

Jane Austen "Mansfield Park"

Egoism

Forgiveness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

William Somerset Maugham "A Writer's Notebook"

Egoism

Friendship and Hostility

Good and Evil

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Egoism

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Egoism

Marriage

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."

Lawana Blackwell "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark"

Egoism

Forgiveness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"He that plants trees loves others beside himself."

Thomas Fuller "Gnomologia"

Egoism

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

Benjamin Disraeli

Egoism

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Benjamin Franklin

Egoism

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Altruism is the mark of a superior being."

Egyptian Proverbs (from ancient temple)

Egoism

Human

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"If I die, I forgive you; If I live, we shall see."

Spanish Proverbs

Egoism

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups."

Deborah Tannen

Egoism

Human

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

Malcolm Forbes

Egoism

Human

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."

Deborah Tannen

Defeates and Mistakes

Egoism

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature."

George Meredith

Egoism

Woman and Man

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All I want is a little more than I'll ever get."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Egoism

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The majority is never right, unless it includes me."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Egoism

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Some people take too much of vitamin "I"."

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Egoism

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)