Quotes About Self-awareness

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

Who, then, are they, seated here? Is the table a mirror in which they sit and look? Are they men eating reflections of themselves?

Not less because in purple I descended The western day, through what you called The loneliest air, not less was I myself

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

Life is like a mirror, what you see out there, you must first see what is inside you.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying that they made them.

We must admit that very often we are afraid or ashamed to look at our own minds. So we prefer to avoid it. One should be bold and sincere and look at one's own mind as one looks at one's face in a mirror.

We have met the enemy and they are us!

We have met the enemy and it is us.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

A people never hears censure of itself.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Humanity's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

It is too embarrassing to name and own one's deep failings; as long as they are unvoiced, we may be allowed to pretend it is not so.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.