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Quotes About Self-awareness

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.
~ Joshua Reynolds
We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.
~ Jude Morgan
The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.
~ Linda D. Thompson
Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
~ Patrick Ness
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
~ Paul Auster
Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.
~ Oprah Winfrey
One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.
~ Richard Tyrrell
You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.
~ Sarah Dessen
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
~ Sloane Crosley
I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
~ Sylvester Stallone
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
~ Victor Hugo
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
~ Victor Hugo
This above all: to thine own self be true.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
~ Helen Keller
Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn't take long before the truth gets revealed and you'll be left hurt with the results.
~ Kemi Sogunle