Quotes About Self-awareness

I am as knowledgeable as Socrates I know nothing.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

No matter the situation don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.