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Quotes About Self-awareness

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
~ Luc de Clapiers
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
~ Albert Camus
There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
~ Marcus Garvey
I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.
~ Ray Dalio
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.
~ Pema Chodron
If You Don't Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There's something in everyone only they know.
~ Ben Harper
Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.
~ Thomas Mullen
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.
~ Leo Tolstoy
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.
~ William C. Brown
Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
~ F. Sionil Jose
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
~ Orson Scott Card
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.
~ Dan Simmons
History is the self-consciousness of humanity.
~ Johann Gustav Droysen
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
~ William Shakespeare
I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
~ Bill Cosby
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
~ Dorothy Parker
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
~ Barry Humphries
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
~ Jean Cocteau
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
~ Bill Watterson