Quotes About Self-awareness

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

We all march to the drum,"she murmured."However we are raised, however we are trained, it never seems to leave us. Do you think we can break free?" . . . "We can all learn,"he answered."All grow and change. That choice is ours to make.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Hij dwingt zich tot het eten van zijn yoghurt, want regelmaat moet er zijn, maar halverwege ontdekt hij dat hij eigenlijk helemaal niet van yoghurt houdt en hij laat de rest staan.

Do not confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them. - Nico (Royal Tenenbaums)

I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things...

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call the human body; I am not a subtle penetrating air distributed throughout all these members; I am not a wind, a fire, a vapor, a breath or anything at all that I can image. I am supposing all these things to be nothing. Yet I find, while so doing, that I am still assured that I am a something.

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.

I am, I exist.

Therefore from the fact alone that I know that I exist and that, at the same time, I notice absolutely nothing else that belongs to my nature apart from the single fact that I am a thinking thing, I correctly conclude that my essence consists in this alone, that I am a thinking thing.

while I wanted thus to think that everything was false, it necessarily had to be the case that I, who was thinking this, was something. And noticing that this truth—I think, therefore I am—was so firm and so assured that all the most extravagant suppositions of the skeptics were incapable of shaking it, I judged that I could accept it without scruple as the first principle of the philosophy I was seeking.

For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced I had advanced no farther in all my attempts at learning, than the discovery at every turn of my own ignorance. And

Não há nada que dominemos inteiramente a nao ser os nossos pensamentos.

Je sais combien nous sommes sujets à nous méprendre en ce qui nous touche, et combien aussi les jugements de nos amis nous doivent être suspects, lorsqu'ils sont en notre faveur.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction."

As I acknowledge the boundaries within myself, I am given plenty of opportunities to reinforce them