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Quotes About Self-awareness

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
~ Marianne Williamson
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
~ Goethe
Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.
~ J. D. Greear
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
~ Rudolf Steiner
You must become like yourself.
~ Janet Morris
I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.
~ Gisele Bundchen
We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
~ Cynthia Ozick
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
~ George Santayana
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
~ Herman Melville
Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.
~ William Shakespeare
To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
~ Laozi
Not if I know myself at all.
~ Charles Lamb
If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.
~ Seth
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
~ John Darnielle
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
~ Frederick Douglass
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
~ Juvenal
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.
~ Dov Davidoff
Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?
~ Frederick Lenz
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
~ Alexander Pope
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
~ Plato
As for me all I know is that I know nothing.
~ Socrates