self-awareness Quotes

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Children are all foreigners.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.