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Self-awareness Quotes
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
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"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
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"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
65
"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
61
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
59
"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."
57
"The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you."
53
"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."
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"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
51
"Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults, this is called the world."
51
"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
48
"People everywhere love Windows."
47
"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
46
"I'm a fool.At least i'm a self aware fool."
45
"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
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"If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us."
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
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"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."
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"The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego."
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"To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia."
42
"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
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"When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less."
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"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
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"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
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"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
41
"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."
40
"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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"To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence."
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"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."
37
"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
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"No one knows more about the way you think than you do."
37
"Only what is below you tries to pull you down."
37
"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
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"Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections."
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"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door."
32
"Your level of ignorance is based on what you believe you know and your ego."
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"All what you seek is within you."
31
"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
31
"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself."
31
"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."
31
"Accept only the divine self."
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"Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe."
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"And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up."
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"If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less."
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"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
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"I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance."
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