Quotes About Self-awareness

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Everything that is of my kind, in nature and history, speaks to me, praises me, spurs me on, comforts me - everything else I don't hear or forget right away. We are always only in our own company.

WE are unknown, we knowers, ourselves to ourselves: this has its own good reason.

Ik houd van hem, die vrij van geest en vrij van hart is: aldus is zijn hoofd slechts het ingewand van zijn hart; zijn hart echter drijft hem tot ondergang.

If we train our conscience, it will kiss us at the very moment it bites us

To be unable to take his enemies, his misfortunes and even his misdeeds seriously for long – that is the sign of strong, rounded natures with a superabundance of a power which is flexible, formative, healing and can make one forget...

Yo desprecio tu desprecias; y puesto que me has advertido a mí, ¿por qué no te advertiste a ti?

Um allein zu leben, muss man ein Thier oder ein Gott sein - sagt Aristoteles. Fehlt der dritte Fall: man muss Beides sein - Philosoph....

Live in concealment in order that you may live to yourself. Live ignorant of that which seems to your age to be most important!

I did that,' says my memory. —'I could not have done that,' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually the memory yields.

Mutter ich bin dumm.

One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!

Our loathing of dirt may be so great as to prevent our cleaning ourselves—justifying ourselves.

Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one's ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears.

He who destroys the illusions in himself and others is punished by nature, the cruelest tyrant.

But the worst enemy you can encounter will always be yourself.

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

I sometimes think that what civilized serenity the British people possess, and small but real ability to smile at themselves, is chiefly due to their good luck in having had William Shakespeare born one of their company.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not as we would like to be in the eyes of the public; not as our press notices say we are, but as we are in the sight of God when we examine our conscience.

Better could the stem of a rose support a marble bust than the mind of man bear the false infinity of his own deification.

God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.

It is only when we recognize our inferiority that we become superior to others.