#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.”

“We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.”

“I should be suspicious of what I want.”

“How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.”

“If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.”

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

“To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.”

“We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.”

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.”

“You must ask for what you really want.”

“You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.”

“Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.”

“Be suspicious of what you want.”

“When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.”

“Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.”

“If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.”

“You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”

“Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.”

“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”

“And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.”

“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis.The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.”

“Pride eradicates all vices but itself.”

“It makes no difference where you go ...there you are.”

“I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.”

“Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?”