Top 47 Ego Knowledge Quotes
#1. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Flattery:
One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.
Idries Shah
#2. We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#3. If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
Peter Fonda
#4. Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego
Albert Einstein
#6. My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality.
Theodor W. Adorno
#8. Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.
Dada Bhagwan
#9. Anger is the fire of ego which tries to burn the beauties of heart and soul.
Debasish Mridha
#10. There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is 'egoism' and where there is Gnan, there is no 'egoism'.
Dada Bhagwan
#11. When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed.
Luis Marques
#12. Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.
Sathya Sai Baba
#13. Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego's display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as "spiritual" people.
Chogyam Trungpa
#15. In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.
Edgar Cayce
#16. Knowledge (Gnan) is not attained first; first the ego departs.
Dada Bhagwan
#17. Ego=1/Knowledge
More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.
Albert Einstein
#18. Every action ('doing') causes bondage. 'Doing' is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, 'action' of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.
Dada Bhagwan
#19. He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him - everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.
Douglas Adams
#20. God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
Bede Griffiths
#21. The Path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide. Not your mind. Meet, challenge, and ultimately prevail over your nafs (false ego) with your heart. Knowing your ego (higher self/soul) will lead you to the knowledge of God. (2)
Various
#23. The Soul's doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].
Dada Bhagwan
#24. I remain too impressed with Freud's vision of the human animal's compromise with existence
the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves
to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.
Stanley Cavell
#25. Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.
Alexander Strauch
#26. An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion.
Luis Marques
#27. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#28. Most people confuse "self-knowledge" with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone
C. G. Jung
#29. A person with a big ego usually knows very little.
Eraldo Banovac
#30. The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
Ramakrishna
#31. But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
Adi Shankara
#32. Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.
Paul Brunton
#33. We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
F. Sionil Jose
#34. Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.
Debasish Mridha
#35. SECRETS ARE POWER. WHEN YOU DIVULGE A SECRET, YOU BARTER THE POTENTIAL power of your hidden knowledge for the fleeting ego boost that comes with its revelation.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#36. Ego seeks the domination by war, but spirit seeks the peace through love.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.
Yasmin Mogahed
#38. EGO stands for Exclude God's Opinion. We think we know everything. Do we really know everything about the working of physical, mental and spiritual world? Not even a tenth!
Maddy Malhotra
#39. The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.
Bruce Lee
#40. It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
Richard Dawkins
#41. Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart.
I am in love with the universe and I praise nature's art.
Debasish Mridha
#42. What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#44. Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever.
Debasish Mridha
#45. As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
Ramakrishna
#46. When we treat God as a different identity, our thought process becomes dualistic in nature. This is due to the self ignorance, ego and immaturity; in simple words, less knowledge about our own immortality.
Vishal Chipkar
#47. Take up anything that you see or feel, a book for instance; first concentrate the mind on it, then on the knowledge that is in the form of a book, and then on the Ego that sees the book, and so on. By that practice all the organs will be conquered.
Swami Vivekananda
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