Quotes About Self-awareness

The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

I'm not much of a drinker. It only takes me one drink to get drunk . . . my fourth.

Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde, President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.'

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I have been doing.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

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

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.