Quotes About Self-awareness

A madman is one who considers himself sane and thinks that fools don't belong in his rank.

Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

It wasn't worth wasting your time trying to change the world; it was enough not to let the world change you.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you," answered Julián.

Boeken zijn spiegels: je ziet slechts dat wat je zelf al in je draagt.

Books are mirrors - you only see in them what you already have inside you

Kad me vidio, don Pedrov otac naredio mi je da odem po ?ašu mineralne i ?ist rubac kako bih mu obrisao mrlju na reveru. Mislim da ste se prevarili, gospodne. Ja nisam sluga... Uputio mi je osmijeh koji mi je razjasnio kako stoje stvari u svijetu, bez potrebe za rije?ima. Ti si se prevario, mladi?u. Ti si sluga, znao to ili ne.

Learning how to differentiate between why one does things and why one says one does them is the first step toward getting to know oneself. And from there to no longer being a cretin, there's still quite a way to go.

He'd come to the conclusion that you never really know who you are until you learn to hate. And when you really hate, when you abandon yourself to that anger that burns you inside, that slowly consumes what little good you thought you had in your baggage, you do it secretly.

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

What Fermín says is that wise men own up when they sometimes make mistakes, but idiots always make mistakes, even though they never admit it and always think they're right. He calls it his Archimedean Principle of Communicable Imbecilities.' 'Oh, does he?' 'Yes. According to him, an idiot is an animal who doesn't know how to, or is unable to, change his mind.

Soha ne bízz senkiben, Daniel, s a legkevésbé azokban, akiket csodálsz. TÅ'lük kapod a legnagyobb pofonokat.

Ksi??ki s? lustrem: widzisz w nich tylko to co, ju? masz w sobie.

Books are mirrors, you see in them what you already have inside you.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside.

Don't be ashamed of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. I read that in a book.

it true you haven't read any of these books?' 'Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,' answered Julián.

Popoarele nu se privesc niciodat? în oglind?

Significa que si los hombres tuviesen el cerebro la mitad de grande que la bocaza, por no decir otra cosa, este mundo funcionaría mucho mejor.

Once she told me she was sorry she'd been a disappointment to me. I asked her where she'd got that ridiculous idea. 'From your eyes, Father, from your eyes,' she said. Not once did it occur to me that perhaps I'd been an even greater disappointment to her. Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.

Loco es el que se tiene por cuerdo y cree que los necios no son de su condición.

Is it true you haven't read any of these books?" "Books are boring." "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you," answered Julián.

Az elsÅ' lépés önmagad megismerésében, ha különbséget tudsz tenni aközött, hogy miért teszel valamit, meg hogy mit mondasz, miért teszed. De ennél még odébb van, hogy valaki ne legyen kretén.