Quotes About Self-awareness

Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.

I find it difficult to stand up for what you are and what your essence is, and seeing that clearly can be an unbelievably hard thing to do.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

The holy war is only within.

You must be a light unto yourself.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with