Quotes About Self-awareness

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.