Quotes About Self-awareness

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Know your enemy, know yourself.

The overexamined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

He wanted to hear his own footsteps to prove that he trod the ground.

In his book Pensées, a collection of fragments of theology and philosophy, the seventeenth-century French philosopher Pascal suggested that all of humanity's problems stem from our inability to sit, alone, in one room.

He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves