self-awareness Quotes

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.