Quotes About Self-awareness

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

A man's got to know his limitations.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.