3 Henry Adams Quotes on Ego

Henry Adams quotes on ego

7. Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

10. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

40. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.