self-awareness Quotes

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.