Quotes About Self-awareness

If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

In this world," Franny once observed, "just as you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.

What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my writing . What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever protected anyone? For whom had I truly been worthwhile?

The past was where he lived most confidently, and with the surest sense of knowing who he was—not only as a novelist.

You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later

Was he nice? He didn't know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know?

but when I look at you now, I don't know who you are." I told her I occasionally had the same feeling about myself.

Ignatius, all at once you're your horrible old self. All at once I think I'm making a very big mistake.

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

That aspect of reality of most central concern and importance to human beings is, of course, human beings. And in order to survive and succeed in his fullest capacity as a human being, man must be able to identify his own nature (including his means of knowledge) as well as the nature of the world (or universe) in which he acts.

Si corre un pericolo non da poco quando si sta troppo vicino al fiume di pensieri di un'altra persona, perchè più forte è la corrente e più è facile caderci dentro e venire trascinati lontano da sè stessi.

These are my confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it is because I have nothing to say.

Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.