“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”
Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
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“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”
Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes (1894–1964) British automobile pioneer
Quoted on the BBC-TV show "Who Said That?," http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9e47e00dd95247bf85472a4801cad3af January 14, 1958 http://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&q=%22No+other+man-made+device+since+the+shields+and+lances+of+the+ancient+knights+fulfills+a+man's+ego+like+an+automobile%22&pg=PA122#v=onepage
“I like the moment when I break a man's ego”
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
“Do not kill your ego and do not let your ego to kill you. Control your ego and rule over it.”
Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
“I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 109
Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008) American writer
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“A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher