Quotes About Self-awareness

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

You find out what type of man you are.

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

Never speak more clearly than you think.