Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm not big on fat jokes. That's a little beneath me. I'm not a huge fan of making a joke - and as I say this, I'm sure I do it - completely at someone else's expense.

I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

I never feel like it'll be something where like, 'Aha, I've got it. I'm funny for the rest of my life. I don't need to tell jokes anymore. I just am comedy.'

Early on, I had a girlfriend come see me, and she was like, 'Yeah, it was good, but you were funny at a dining hall at the University of Maryland.' That's when I realized I was contrived. I was reciting jokes. So I really worked on - no matter what - sounding like I was just talking to the people.

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.

Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.

Receive what this great cornucopia has offered, Behold a useful and profitable book. If you think otherwise, Do not lay the blame on the book, but on yourself.

El que de otros habla mal, a sí mismo se condena.

There may be no great honor in running away, but worse than that is continuing like an idiot.

I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

no man is a good judge in his own case.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.