Quotes About Self-awareness

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

A man thinking with the core of his heart is always willing to change to accept his mistakes while others just crib and duck the mistakes to find fault with others only.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

The cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself.

Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.