Basil of Caesarea Quotes

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

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

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

I know my own flaws only too well.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

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.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

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

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

I realize I'm a mirror.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

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 like to think of myself as an observer.

Only the shallow know themselves.