4,826 Quotes About Self

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.