self-awareness Quotes

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.