Definition of Egotism

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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

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Ambrose Bierce

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Germaine Greer

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

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

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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