Quotes about Self-awareness
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
— Nikki Giovanni
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
— Nikki Giovanni
Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.
— Norman Geisler
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
— Norman Vincent Peale
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Everything about my own face that seemed to me familiar and obvious had vanished; what remained was a distinctive scattering of dots that symbolized the planets set against the celestial vault. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The further north you go, the more people concentrate on themselves, and in some sort of northern madness (no doubt due to the lack of sun) they ascribe to themselves too much. They make themselves responsible for their actions.
— Olga Tokarczuk
I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.