Quotes About Self-awareness

All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Man is but the place where I stand.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.