Quotes About Self-awareness

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?