Dennis Miller Quotes

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

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

Only the shallow know themselves.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

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

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.