Egotism
The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.
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Egotism Quotations
Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Ambrose Bierce
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
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
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene
Egotism Translations
egotism in Norwegian is selvopptatthet
egotism in Spanish is egotismo
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