Quotes about Self-awareness

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

I do not fear my vulnerability because I no longer confuse it with weakness.

I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.