George Carlin Quotes

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

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

There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

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

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

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.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

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

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

I've discovered myself a little more, personality-wise just being put through certain situations, whether being in the spotlight, heartbreak, friends coming and going, family.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

Basically, when I did 'Infinity' in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I've gone to certain personal limits with 'Infinity' that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I've made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.