Quotes about Self-awareness
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
- CS Lewis
O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.
- St. Augustine
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
- Elie Wiesel
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
- GK Chesterton
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
- Anais Nin
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
- Charles Spurgeon
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
- Cormac McCarthy
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.
- Deepak Chopra
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
- GK Chesterton
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
- Cicero