Quotes About Self-awareness

WE ONLY KNOW two things for certain: "I am," and "I will die.

He that is down, needs fear no fall,He that is low, no pride.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

When people point fingers at someone else, they should remember that three fingers are pointing back at them.

It takes wisdom to know what we don't know

How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

For when it starts feeling like a prison in there—and it usually does for most people—you are confronted with the fact that the bars are of your own making.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

Being told that he was immune to flattery was the nicest thing he had heard someone say about him in a long time.

The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.

True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.

Each of us thinks we have just cause for elevating ourselves and despising all others in comparison to ourselves—our self-love ruins us with such blindness. If, in fact, God has gifted us with something that is good in itself, we immediately make it the basis for praising ourselves to such a degree that we not only swell up but almost burst with pride.

He who is most deeply abased and alarmed, by the consciousness of his disgrace, nakedness, want, and misery, has made the greatest progress in the knowledge of himself.

we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For

Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Trie and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

It is hypocrisy alone   that leads men to be careless about themselves, [240] and haughtily to   despise others.

On the other hand, it is well known that a person never comes to the clear knowledge of himself unless he has first contemplated the face of the Lord, and afterward descended to consider himself.

we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This