Quotes About Self-awareness

Kako joj objasniti zatvoreni svijet u kojem živim, to da sam ja problem, uzrok nesre?e ljudi oko mene?

Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.

That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is- for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Be true to thine own self

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

What I do not know, I do not think I know.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

I know I'm intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

I neither know nor think that I know

I'm wiser than that person. For it's likely that neither of us knows anything fine and good, but he thinks he knows something he doesn't know, whereas I, since I don't in fact know, don't think that I do either. At any rate, it seems that I'm wiser than he in just this one small way: that what I don't know, I don't think I know.

So I withdrew and thought to myself: 'I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.

I only know, I know nothing

I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know