Quotes about Self
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
— Carl Sagan
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
— DH Lawrence
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
— Ernest Hemingway
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
— Cicero
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
— Mark Twain
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
— Mark Twain
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
— Henry Ford
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher