self-awareness Quotes

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.