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Quotes About Self-awareness

The man I want to be could easily beat me up.
~ Dov Davidoff
I'm a cruel man to myself.
~ Duncan Jones
I was a man by middle school.
~ Edgerrin James
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
~ Edward Abbey
Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.
~ Edward Young
Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
~ Elie Wiesel
I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.
~ Ella Henderson
Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man
~ Elvis Costello
God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.
~ Eric Hoffer
A man by himself is in bad company.
~ Eric Hoffer
As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.
~ Eric Roberts
Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
~ Francis Bacon
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
~ Francis Bacon
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
~ George Eliot
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
~ George Eliot
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
~ George Herbert