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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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✓Similar Perspectives

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

— Alfred Adler

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

— Rihanna

I wish I could unknow this, but there is a perception of me that I'm super-sensitive and fragile. And I am super-sensitive, and I don't think that that's a bad thing. To do what I do, I have to remain open.

— Winona Ryder

I'm a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.

— Mary Lambert

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

— Teddy Pendergrass

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.

— Sarah Hay

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

— Mike Tyson

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

— Cesare Beccaria

I am a really sensitive person.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

— Fred Durst

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