Quotes about Self
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
— AW Tozer
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
— CS Lewis
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
— Carl Sagan
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
— DH Lawrence
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
— Ernest Hemingway
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
— Cicero
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
— Mark Twain
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
— Mark Twain
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
— Henry David Thoreau