Warren Cuccurullo Quotes

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

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

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

I discovered myself!

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.

Sometimes you watch yourself, and you think, 'Oh, wow.'

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.