Robert Lloyd Quotes

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.

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

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

Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

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

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

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.'

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

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.

My personality doesn't interest me.

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

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

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.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I realize I'm a mirror.

I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.

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.