Wise Quotes on Ego

You may have asked many times what is actually an ego. Arguably, there is no single answer. On the contrary, there may be as many ego as we are human beings. The ego is that part of our personality that begins to take shape from the first moment that we affirm ourselves as people in this world. It encompasses our character that, influenced by temperament, develops as we move forward in our vital development. The ego is also our mind, that part of us more attached to the material of existence and that works in a way, say, more automatic and practical. It also participates in our most primary emotions, those that are to be refined or polished and that constitute the negative of true feeling.

There are countless of ego quotes . Check out the compilation below to see some of the wise sayings on ego by famous writers and personalities.

1. Hatred or inquisitiveness could be the seeds of love.Dennis Miller

2. The ego does not exist anywhere else except in human beings, and the ego begins to grow as the child grows up.Tao Osho

3. When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism.George Moore

4. If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.Alexander Smith

5. I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.Michel de Montaigne

6. Ego trip: a journey to nowhere.Robert Half

7. Egotism is the anesthetic which nature gives us to deaden the pain of being a fool.Dr. Herbert Shofield

8. Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.Sir Walter Scott

9. Our ego is our silent partner-too often with a controlling interest.Cullen Hightower

10. Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.Marianne Moore

11. To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego.... All genius comes from this class.Mary Roberts Rinehart

12. An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.Joseph Fort Newton

13. I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
Bobby Fischer14. Knowledge that puffs up the possessor’s mind is ever more of a pernicious kind.
William Mather

15. No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.Beran Wolfe

16. The bigger a man’s head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.Henry A. Courtney

17. Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they’re all egomaniacs.Norman Mailer

18. The egoist does not tolerate egoism.Joseph Roux

19. Egotist: A man of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.Ambrose Bierce

20. Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.Frank Leahy

21. Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.George Higgins

22. The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.Lucille Harper