Quotes About Self-awareness

Character is who you are when nobody else is watching," he wrote in one of his books—the undeniable, hokey truth.

Sometimes our parents were dazzled by the sense of possibility they'd bestowed upon us. Other times, they were aghast to recognize their own entitlement, staring back at them magnified in the mirror of their offspring

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Anger Is A Gift

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?

He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things;   Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion;   But whoso neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from   another   Layeth it to heart;—he is a useless man.

He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things; Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion; But whoso neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from another Layeth it to heart;--he is a useless man.

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.

Man, know thyself. I say it out loud. The phrase is one of those phrases with which everyone is familiar, of which everyone acknowledges the value, and which only the most sagacious put into practice. I don't know why.

I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

If you honestly feel resentful against some one, but, having understood the foolishness of fury, intentionally mask your fury under a persuasive tone, your fury will at once begin to abate. You will be led into a rational train of thought; you will see that after all the object of your resentment has a right to exist, and that he is neither a doormat nor a scoundrel, and that anyhow nothing is to be gained, and much is to be lost, by fury. You will see that fury is unworthy of you.

Ob?utek sramu potrebuje druge ljudi.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

There are some women who appear sincerely unaware of the fact that they cannot stop talking, and are most surprised when anyone accuses them of monopolising the conversation.

it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix

Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.