#self-awareness
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Reality will pay you back in equal proportion to your delusion.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom.
A lot of smart people think they’re way smarter than they are, and therefore they do worse than dumb people. And it’s very common to be utterly brilliant and think you’re way the hell smarter than you are.
I think that one should recognize the reality even when one doesn’t like it; indeed, especially when one doesn’t like it.