Quotes About Self-awareness

Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves.

The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves.

the great artist of the intransitive verb also avoided objects of his sexual drive; what evidence we have indicates that he carnally embraced himself only, and walked the open road with only the thought of death and the knowledge of death as his close companions

Sometimes we are not as bored with our work as we are bored with ourselves.

When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.

Remember this also: it's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you'll get along.

You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.

Las personas que están en sus cabales no se enorgullecen de sus talentos

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

ali prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram mo?i živjeti sam sa sobom. Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovanjem ve?ine.

said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram mo?i živjeti sam sa sobom.

if we followed our feelings all the time we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Da bih mogao zivjeti sa drugima, moram prvo zivjeti sam sa sobom. Jedina stvar koja ne pripada pod pravila vecine jeste covjekova savjest.

It's just that I'm so afraid of making a mess of being married to the wrong man—the wrong kind for me, I mean. I'm no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin' shrew in record time.

sebelum aku mampu hidup bersama orang lain, aku harus hidup dengan diriku sendiri. Satu hal yang tidak tunduk pada mayoritas adalah nurani seseorang

And don't you fret yourself about anything—why, if we followed our feelings all the time we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Remember this also: it's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you'll get along." "Uncle

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents

It's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are.

Pametni ljudi nikad se ne ponose svojom darovitoš?u.

something's wrong with me, it's something about me. It has to be because all these people cannot have changed.

akl? ba??nda hiç kimse yeteneÄŸi var diye gururlanmaz.

ama baÅŸka insanlar?n yüzüne bakabilmek için önce kendi yüzüme bakabilmeliyim. BaÅŸka insanlar?n çoÄŸunluÄŸunun düÅŸüncelerinden ba??ms?z hareket eden tek ÅŸey insan?n vicdan?d?r.