Quotes About Self-awareness

One may be humble out of pride.

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from several pieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to my own governing method, ignorance.

You should study more to understand that you know little.

there is nothing in the whole world madder than bringing matters down to the measure of our own capacities and potentialities. How

If each man, on hearing a wise maxim, immediately looked to see how it properly applied to him, he would find that it was not so much a pithy saying as a whiplash applied to the habitual stupidity of his faculty of judgement.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.

Não há uma única coisa tão vazia e carente quanto tu, que abraças o universo: és o escrutador sem conhecimento, o magistrado sem jurisdição e, ao final, o bobo da farsa.

To learn that one has said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; one must learn that one is nothing but a fool, a much more comprehensive and important lesson.

does know himself never considers external things to be his;

Kendinden söz etmeyi kötü görmek, yasak etmek adet olmuÅŸtur; çünkü kendinden söz etmek her zaman kendini övmek gibi görünür; kendini övmekse herkesin z?dd?na gider. Ama kendinden söz etmeyi yasak etmek, çocuÄŸun burnunu silecek yerde, bununu koparmak olur.

Åžu insan ne korkunç bir hayvan ki, kendi kendinden bu kadar iÄŸreniyor, kendi zevklerini ba??n?n belas? say?yor.

cada qual aprecia o odor de seu esterco: Nossos olhos não veem para trás. Cem vezes por dia zombanos de nós mesmos ao zombarmos de nossos vizinhos; os defeitos que detestamos em outrem são ainda mais visíveis em nós, e no entanto, os admiramos com maravilhosa imprudência sem perceber a contradição.

Kendi kendimize düzen vermenin ne kadar güç olduÄŸunu biliriz.

I take so great a pleasure in being judged and known, that it is almost indifferent to me in which of the two forms I am so: my imagination so often contradicts and condemns itself, that 'tis all one to me if another do it, especially considering that I give his reprehension no greater authority than I choose; but I break with him, who carries himself so high, as I know of one who repents his advice, if not believed, and takes it for an affront if it be not immediately followed.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never seen greater monster or miracle in the world than myself: one grows familiar with all strange things by time and custom, but the more I frequent and the better I know myself, the more does my own deformity astonish me, the less I understand myself.

Gjør vi ikke oss selv til dyr når vi kaller den handling som skaper oss dyrisk?

it is myself I paint. My

Vi gjør kanskje rett i å klandre oss selv for å frembringe noe så tåpelig som mennesket, og i å kalle akten skammelig og de organer som brukes til den, for skamdeler (mine egne er for tiden blitt så ynkelige at jeg virkelig skammer meg over dem).

Hvor grotesk er ikke et vesen som føler avsky for sin egen person, som blir nedtrykt av sine gleder og ser på seg selv som en ulykke!

Om te oordelen over grote en verheven zaken, moet je zelf op dat niveau staan, anders projecteer je er je eigen gebreken op. In het water lijkt een rechte roeispaan krom. Het is niet alleen van belang of je een ding ziet, maar vooral hoe je het ziet.

Men jeg innser klart at dette gode er svært vanskelig å gjenvinne; svakhet og lang erfaring har gitt oss en mer kresen og nøyeregnende smak. Vi forlanger mer samtidig som vi har mindre å tilby; vi vil ha flere valgmuligheter, når vi selv minst fortjener å bli valgt. Fordi vi vet at i er slik, blir vi mindre dristige og mer mistroiske, og i betraktning av vår egen og deres tilstand, er det ikke noe som kan forsikre oss om at vi er elsket.

Ik heb gemerkt dat wij in de leerschool van de menselijke samenleving vaak de volgende fout maken: wij zijn er meer op uit onze eigen persoon op de voorgrond te stellen dan om anderen te doorgronden, en wij getroosten ons meer moeite om onze koopwaar aan de man te brengen dan om nieuwe voorraad in te slaan. Je kunt wijs zijn zonder ophef te maken, zonder aanstoot te geven.