Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

A real man has no tougher judge than himself.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.