Quotes About Self-awareness

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but is is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

It is introspective, and I want to introspect.

to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

There are in me the makings of a very fine loafer...

Orang berkemampuan rata-rata tidak tahu apa-apa yang lebih tinggi daripada dirinya. Tapi, orang berbakat selalu bisa menyadari suatu kegeniusan.

me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

Je suis ce que je suis.

Lost in his own world half the time, and tormented by devils the other half. Sometimes he's so far gone he doesn't recognize his own name.

But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.

What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?' 'Life is a play, isn't it?

I feel stupid when people say 'You? You are so brave,' because I don't feel brave, I don't even know what brave is.

If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself?

But after a time even my temper tantrums have to give way to rational thought, and I faced at last what ought to have been obvious from the very beginning: We'd lost because we were ignorant. And of the two of us, I was the worse off, because I hadn't even known I was ignorant.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

He had seen how people grew cruel with telling themselves of their own compassion: nothing made you harder than that.

I think we are only afraid of ourselves, the doctor said slowly. No, Luke said. Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward--that's why they've been give bodies, to hide their souls.

you'd think my own face would know me...

Sometimes the people who knock you down never turn once to look.

oh, meine Güte! Ich dachte, ich weiß, was ich sagen wollte, aber ich sage es sehr schlecht.

Nachdem ich nun weiß, wer von uns ich ist', sagte Luke, 'kann ich mich gleich noch näher vorstellen.