self-awareness Quotes

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.