Self Awareness Quotes

“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”

“Greatness knows itself.”

“Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?”

“This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.”

“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”

“More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.”

“And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself”

“We are all wise for other people, none for himself.”

“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.”

“The field cannot be seen from within the field.”

“No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.”

“A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.”

“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”

“You never know how you look through other people's eyes.”

“Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.”

“I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.”

“Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.”

“You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.”

“He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.”

“Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.”

“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”

“Our enemies are our outward consciences.”

“When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind”

“Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.”