Quotes About Egocentrism

#1. When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. Not being able to see things from several points of view is another form of egocentrism.

Pedro A. Perez Raymond

#3. Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

Jean Piaget

#4. To conceive of a god in one's image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights.

Anthony Marais

#5. Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

Jean Piaget

#6. It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

Thomas L. Friedman

#7. It is the things that happen, then how you react to them , that gives life some meaning.

Steven Redhead

#8. The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

Fulton J. Sheen

#9. I've never told Liat. About who I am. Do you think ... Maati, can you love someone and not trust them?"

"We're born to odd lives, Otah-kvo," Maati said, sounding suddenly older and more sorrowful. "If we waited for people we trusted, I think we might never love anyone.

Daniel Abraham

#10. Most parents are so convinced of their little darling's innocence that, by proxy, in rallying for junior's purity they come to believe in their own innocence - as if duplicating oneself will make a right!

Anthony Marais

#11. The bartender's smile widened. His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it.

William Gibson

#12. Gape long enough into a looking glass and you'll eventually see beauty. The same can be said of self-analysis, and as soon as one apes oneself, a second monkey is born.

Anthony Marais

#13. My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.

Sue Miller

#14. No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence. Go on, give those guns

Leigh Bardugo

#15. Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one's own life is about as productive as talking to one's image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.

Anthony Marais

#16. Politicians look for interests not people

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#17. I feel so trapped, by my ego.

T. Scott McLeod

#18. Cooking for my family is always a pleasure when I'm able to do it. My favorite thing to make is really whatever my kids ask for on any given day. It's more about being with them and doing something together.

Joe Bastianich

#19. To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. If I assume the 'truth' to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my 'truth.' And the 'truth' of the matter is, when I do this I've chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Baruch Spinoza

#22. Don't feed your ego with my soul.

Arzum Uzun

#23. An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Idries Shah