Quotes About Self-awareness

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.