self-awareness Quotes

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.