self-awareness Quotes

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.