Quotes About Self-awareness

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I'd rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.

There are always fuckups, and there is always a goat. Sometimes the goat is you.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world... Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.

As I walked back over the bridge, I thought that of all the people I'd talked to today, I was probably the least content in my situation.

Hiro, you are such a geek. She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after. ... She doesn't want you to understand her. She wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.

One of the few appealing things about him was that he had figured out that his personality was a problem and, in classic "get it done" style, had hired a coach to make him less of an asshole. She could see that working in his face.

He seemed not to know that he was quite handsome.