self-awareness Quotes

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.