Quotes About Self-awareness

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.