Quotes about ego

The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. The less the knowledge, the greater the ego.

Make peace with the fact that people will always see their own version of you in their minds. You don't have to be responsible for who they think you are.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

There is no need to aspire to greatness. If you go beyond concerns of 'what about me,' you will anyway be a great human being.

You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them.

Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.

There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.