Saint Augustine Quotes

I've always been a very self-aware person.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

My personality doesn't interest me.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.