self-awareness Quotes

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.