Quotes About Self-awareness

We foolishly believe that our own limitations are the proper measure of limitations.

My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.

It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one's limitations--Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.

The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Silver Rule (negative golden rule): Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. Note the difference from the Golden Rule, as the silver one prevents busybodies from attempting to run your life.

be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.

This, perhaps is true self-confidence: the ability to look at the world without the need to find signs that stroke one's ego.

We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day

True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.

Some people do not know their own interest—just consider addicts, workaholics, people trapped in a bad relationship, people who support large government, the press, book reviewers, or respectable bureaucrats, all of whom for some mysterious reason act against their own interest.

Mine was the only job you could do if you thought of yourself as risk-hating, risk-aware, and highly ignorant.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

If you think that you can control your emotions, think that some people also believe that they can control their heartbeat or hair growth.)

Evidence shows that we do much less thinking than we believe we do-except, of course, when we think about it.

Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.

I believe that the principal asset I need to protect and cultivate is my deep-seated intellectual insecurity.

80 to 90% of people think that they are above the average (and the median) in many things.

This, perhaps, is true self-confidence: the ability to look at the world without the need to find signs that stroke one's ego.*

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it. Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that is what you are seeking.

Borrowed wisdom can be vicious. I need to make a huge effort not to be swayed by well-sounding remarks. I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen.

I knew I did not belong.

The best slave is someone who is overpaid and he knows it

Every man believes himself to be quite different