Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

- Barbara Stanwyck

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

- Frank Leahy

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

- George Santayana

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

- Gloria Naylor

Mastery passes often for egotism.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

- Nick Nolte

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

- Thomas Carlyle