self-awareness Quotes

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.