Quotes About Self-awareness

I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

You say, ëI am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.í But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.