639 Quotes About Vanity

Thanks to their egos, instead of simply saying that they do not know, some people sometimes try very hard to remember something they know they have never known.

Vulnerable attempts of wanting to understand myself and the world around me drove me mad. My ego wanted to run too frequently to protect its vanity, but the angel on my shoulder, my sensitive core, suggested self-awareness to the devil.

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

It is the effects on the world of successful active germ-line replicators that we see as adaptations.

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.