Quotes About Self-awareness

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.

Ignorance annihilates self.

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.

You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!

If you know who you are, you do not need to consider yourself to be worse or better than someone else

To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

Know yourself in order to be better not to criticize and judge yourself

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.