Quotes About Self-awareness

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow oneÂ's own advice.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

Look at people in your life as "practice." The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.