Self-Recognition Quotes

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

I am in my own hall of fame, that's all that matters.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

I have a great smile. A lot of people don't know that.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

Every ghetto kid that walks the earth can see something in KRS-One that reminds him of himself.