Quotes About Self-awareness

There is no perfection in humanity.

Perfection is out of the question.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

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

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man is by necessity uncertain.