self-awareness Quotes

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.