Quotes about Self-awareness

A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.