Wendell Phillips Quotes

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

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

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

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

My heart knows me better than I know myself, so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.