Quotes About Self-awareness

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.

From the get-go, I was wise enough to say, 'Well, I'm playing rhythm 'cause Angus could really soar with the leads.' I used to mess around a little bit with lead at the time but not much; Angus, he was just so much better; he just went for it, and it was brilliant. My place was sitting with rhythm, and I love rhythm. I've always loved it.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I'm also conscious that I'm in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do.

It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to some degree, an act of self-exposure; the book you find too challenging might only show how ill-equipped you are to face its challenge.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

My favorite one, it depends. As far as rap wise, I like 'Ask 'Bout Me.' I like that one. It's like a statement: this is who I am. This is why I'm here. If you don't know, you're about to find out.

I wish I could say I was wise and clever, but I'm really not.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

A wise man has to know his limitations. I figured that out pretty quickly.

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.

I think people like that I speak my mind, but I think I can speak my mind in a better way sometimes and choose my words a little bit more wisely.

The older you are, the wiser you are. The more comfortable you are in your own skin, the more you know yourself, the more patient you are. I don't sweat the small stuff any more.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.