self-awareness Quotes

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.