Quotes with self-awareness

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  • Agnes Repplier It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Annie Dillard It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • George Edward Woodberry It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Voltaire It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Barry Gibb It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • George F. Will It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Terry Eagleton It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot 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.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • W. H. Auden It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Anne Tyler It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bell Hooks It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Josh Billings It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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