self-awareness Quotes

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.