Quotes About Self-awareness

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.