Quotes about Self-awareness

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.

Whenever you are popular just pause and see the reflect.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?

Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.

Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you are.

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.