Quotes About Self-awareness

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.