Quotes About Self-awareness

The only thing i know is that i know nothing.

Homme, connais-toi toi-même!

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

? ... ??????????? ???? ?? ?????? ???????... An unexamined life is not worth living

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Aku tahu bahwa aku tidak tahu apa-apa

to find yourself, think for yourself

Ik weet één ding, dat ik niets weet

Y dime, ¿es posible ser orgulloso cuando no se sabe nada, Lisis?

YAH (2022)? ?? ???? ??? ????? ????

Surely this is the objectionable kind of ignorance, to think one knows what one does not know? But in this, gentlemen, here also perhaps I am different from the general run of mankind, and if I should claim to be wiser than someone in something it would be in this, that as I do not know well enough about what happens in the house of Hades, so I do not think I know.

An un-examined life is not worth living

YAH (2022)? Ik weet één ding, dat ik niets weet

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La verdadera Sabiduría está en reconocer la propia ignorancia" (Sócrates)

Puede muy bien suceder, que ni él ni yo sepamos nada de lo que es bello y de lo que es bueno; pero hay esta diferencia, que él cree saberlo aunque no sepa nada, y yo, no sabiendo nada, creo no saber. Me parece, pues, que en esto yo, aunque poco más, era más sabio, porque no creía saber lo que no sabía

If you realize that you are society. The society of the world will cross you.

The more you know who you are and what you want, the less let things upset you

Sometimes even when the cell door is flung open, the prisoner chooses not to escape.

Thomas Merton wrote: "What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Underlying our whole outlook is a neurotic conviction of our own limitations.

what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest;

Así pues, el ego es la carencia de un verdadero conocimiento sobre quiénes somos en realidad, junto con su consecuencia: el inexorable aferramiento, que está condenado al fracaso, a una imagen de nosotros mismos improvisada y hecha de remiendos, un yo inevitablemente camaleónico y charlatán que no cesa de cambiar constantemente para mantener viva la ficción de su existencia.

Aunque fuéramos capaces de advertir las mentiras del ego, nos asusta demasiado abandonarlo. Sin un verdadero conocimiento de la naturaleza de nuestra mente, de nuestra verdadera identidad, no tenemos otra alternativa. Una y otra vez nos rendimos a sus exigencias con la misma tristeza y autodesprecio con que el alcohólico acude a la bebida que sabe que lo está destruyendo, o el drogadicto a la droga que, tras un breve rato de euforia, lo dejará rendido y desesperado.

It is not that you are capable of allowing them to do it to you but that you are incapable of preventing them. What use is it to you to have this effect on people, which is so incompatible with your own peace? If you insist of having an effect, it will unbalance your true nature and to no purpose.