Steven Erikson Quotes

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.

Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

↑ top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

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

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.