Quotes About Self-awareness

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

No man knows himself as an original.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

A man has to know his limitations.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.