Quotes About Self-awareness

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.