2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

Cultural understanding therefore begins with each of us committing to a process of increasing self-awareness, curious observation, ongoing reflection, and dialogue with others.

Well into his thirties he dreamed of having to go to school as a grown-up, opening his desk, and rummaging inside to hide his face, “suffering over again with increased intensity the shyness and sense of disgrace of my boyhood.” And yet Wallace came to be grateful for what he called his “constitutional shyness,” which he felt had given him long periods of solitary study and a hesitancy over words that led him to avoid the verbosity that marred so many scholarly works.

At the age of eighty-three he had the self-awareness necessary to be patient with other people, but not always the facility to disguise the effort.

Outward assumption is a reflection of inward corruption.

No matter what kind of childhood we’ve had, nobody escapes trauma while growing up.

You have to retrace your steps and see how you got to where you are", the bird said sarcastically, "which, I might add, is a pretty pathetic situation".

Faith in anything external to you will always be wasted.

Know your weaknesses and respect them.

Alice should have kept digging.