self-awareness Quotes

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.