Quotes About Self-awareness

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

I man don't come red, I come Black

No man is hurt but by himself.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.