Quotes About Self-awareness

I haven't been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don't feel good, and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.