Quotes About Self-awareness

For we always seem to ourselves righteous and upright and wise and holy—this pride is innate in all of us—unless by clear proofs we stand convinced of our own unrighteousness, foulness, folly, and impurity.

Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind. Let

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

For (such is our innate pride) we always seem to ourselves just, and upright, and wise, and holy, until we are convinced, by clear evidence, of our injustice, vileness, folly, and impurity.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows?My friends forsake me like a memory lost.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized that I wasn't as clever as I thought

No necesito referencias —dijo—. Sé quién es usted. Lo busqué en Google. ¿Tiene pensado matar a alguien? —¿Qué día es hoy? —Me parece que jueves. —No, no tengo pensado matar a nadie.

All is pretense, but we must be careful what we pretend to be, because that is what we must become.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

As long as we blame, as long as we avoid or deny, we remove from the realm of possibility the power to do something about our lives. We become totally dependent upon the ups and downs we create around us.

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life

I beg your pardon," said Abbot. "You are quite right, of course. I am not myself fond of bad taste, though I am always displaying it. Go on.

I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry.

That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.