"Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings and foolish little vanities and impertinences and ambitions; their foolish little life is but a laug..."
- Mark Twain
"Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity."
- Phyllis Theroux
"Although the outward picture of depression is quite the opposite of that of grandiosity and has a quality that expresses the tragedy of the loss of self in a more obvious way, they have many points in..."
- Alice MIller
"Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’ "
- Tony Schwartz
"By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others."
- Steven Franssen
"The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That’s how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you’re not even thinking. Like they’ve been created for you and ..."
- Shannon Mullen
"Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something."
- Henry Cloud
"Grandiosity is when we are wrapped up in winning life's false contest. This happens only when we live to impress the abusive parents in our heads, not when we are soberly and philosophically working t..."
"Psychoanalysis has suffered the accusation of being “unscientific” from its very beginnings (Schwartz, 1999). In recent years, the Berkeley literary critic Frederick Crews has renewed the assault on t..."
- Joseph Schwartz