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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
Stupidity
Pain
Anesthetic
Egotism
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
Religion
People
Ego
Religious
Religious People
Give
Rather
Identity
Up
Than
Egotism
Endorse
Often
Want
Prefer
Compassionate
Right
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris
Assume
Intolerance
Superiority
Most
Acceptable
Without
Permits
Personal
Egotism
Form
Boasting
Us
Socially
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm
Love
Love Is
Other
Others
Indifferent
Only
Attachment
His
Person
Egotism
Loves
Symbiotic
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost
Work
Worst
Supposed
Executives
Afflict
Disease
Egotism
Which
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Side
Out
Only
Wrong
Wrong Side
Egotism
Apology
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Alexander Smith
Character
Strong
Distinctive
Weak
Possession
Worthless
Remains
His
Precious
Egotism
Race
Full
Acute
Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mastery
Passes
Egotism
Often
They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.
Mika
You
People
Care
Too Much
Think
Too
Say
About
Only
True
Because
Am
Egotism
Maybe
Just
Form
Much
They Say
Shy
Shyness
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Man
Drifting
Outside
He
Mere
Himself
Without
Balloon
Egotism
Duties
Inflated
Them
Should
Nowhere
Thin
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
Taylor Swift
Insecurity
Vanity
Both
Egotism
Apply
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
Life
Art
Giving
Sacrifice
Victim
Thinking
Spirit
Student
He
Like
Himself
His
Deceives
Egotism
Deplorable
Ascetic
Who
Species
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
Our
Objects
Morbid
More
Only
Allied
Tender
Excessive
Self-Consciousness
Name
Make
Another
Selves
Cure
Closely
Egotism
Sensibilities
Sensibility
Less
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
Fatema Mernissi
History
Women
Men
Islam
Awareness
Mediocrity
Late
One Thing
Sure
Women And Men
Egotism
Heaven
Sent
Century
Who
Foster
Thing
Enjoyment
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
Francois Hollande
Responsibility
Fall
Own
Duty
Our
France
Rules
Solidarity
Has-Been
Division
Between
Principles
Around
Been
Southern
Any
Northern
Egotism
Common
Refuse
Then
Europe
Bridge
Each
Set
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
Intolerance
Share
Condemn
Egotism
Form
I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.
John Edwards
You
Narcissism
National
Whatever
Young
Believe
President
Presidential
Considered
Running
Fed
Leads
Becoming
Senator
Candidate
Egotism
Being
Want
Vice
Vice President
Which
Public
Public Figure
Figure
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
Good
Director
Quality
Field
Admired
Good Quality
Something
Commander
Egotism
Movie
Movie Director
Tolerated
Even
I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
John Rhys-Davies
Family
Relationship
You
Focus
Allowed
Taking
Sure
Because
Egotism
Just
Artists
Should
Actor
Away
Actually
Need
Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.
Lionel Shriver
Sleeve
Charismatic
Wears
He
His
Trump
Egotism
Politically
Clumsy
There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
Matt Bomer
Love
Lot
Egotism
Really
Level
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