Quotes About Self-awareness

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.

Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

The death of the self lies in the life of the heart

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.