Quotes about Self-awareness

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.

You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.

Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure?

We can only know and understand ourselves fully through others — through the way we experience others and ourselves in relation to others, and the way others experience us.

Follow your own nature.

I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.

In fact I realized I had no guts anyway, which I've long known. but I have joy.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.