Quotes About Self-awareness

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

No man can discover his own talents.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .