E. M. Forster Quotes

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

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

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

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

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

We have to have a very clear understanding of 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.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

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.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.