Ray Bradbury Quotes

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

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.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

'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 try not to be overly analytical.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

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

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

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

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

I don't think or write from big ideals.

The only way you can learn is by analysing yourself and taking in your mistakes.

I've learned a lot from counseling and talking about the mistakes that I've made; I've understood why I made them.