(67 quotes found)
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
Lao Tzu
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Jane Austen
“Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength”
“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey
“i smoke and i drinkand every time i blink i have a tiny dreambut as bad as i am i'm proud of the factthat i'm worse than i seem”
Ani Difranco
“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”
Billie Jean King
“Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.”
Mitch Hedberg
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
Meister Eckhart
“The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.”
George Sheehan
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Oscar Wilde
