Quotes About Self-awareness

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

I'm not a leading man.