Quotes About Self-awareness

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.