Quotes about Self-awareness

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Without benefit of maturity or therapy, I had no way of knowing that the darkness was as much inside me as it was outside me, or that I had any power to affect its hold on me.

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are. When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, "Here, I guess, since this is where I am.

Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

I'm kind of a closet redneck.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I can only speak to myself.

I can only speak to myself. (Bush, 2005).

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.