Quotes about Self-awareness

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Proverbs 23:7 says, "As he thinks within himself, so he is.

The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is (Proverbs 23:7). T

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.

I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Ignorance of ourselves is another reason for forgiving others. Unfortunately it is ourselves we know least; our neighbor's sins, weaknesses, and failures we know a thousand times better than our own. Criticism of others may be bad, but it is want of self-criticism which is worse.

In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness. Lest our conscience should carry on with us an unbearable repartee, we drown out its voice in amusements, distractions, and noise. If we met ourselves in others, we would hate them.