Bertrand Russell Quotes

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

Am I impressed by myself? Nah, not really.

Even I can't talk about myself for an hour.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.