Quotes About Self-awareness

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts, learned his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill.

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface."

Any fool can criticize, and many of them do.