Self-awareness

Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to reconcile oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals. Self-awareness, though similar to sentience in concept, includes the experience of the self, and has been argued as implicit to the hard problem of consciousness.

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• One self-approving hour whole years out-weighs
  Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.
  • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle IV, line 249.

• Speak no more:
  Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;
  And there I see such black and grained spots
  As will not leave their tinct.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 4, line 88.

• Go to your bosom;
  Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
  • William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act II, scene 2, line 136.

• There is a luxury in self-dispraise;
  And inward self-disparagement affords
  To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
  • William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book IV.

• 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours;
  And ask them what report they bore to heaven:
  And how they might have borne more welcome news.
  • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 376.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 696.

• As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself
  And myself replied to me;
  And the questions myself then put to myself,
  With their answers I give to thee.
  • Barnard Barton, Colloquy with Myself. Appeared in Youth's Instructor (Dec., 1826).

• Summe up at night what thou hast done by day;
  And in the morning what thou hast to do.
  Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay
  And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too
  Be down then winde up both; since we shall be
  Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.
  • George Herbert, The Temple, The Church Porch, next to last stanza.

• Let not soft slumber close your eyes,
  Before you've collected thrice
  The train of action through the day!
  Where have my feet chose out their way?
  What have I learnt, where'er I've been,
  From all I've heard, from all I've seen?
  What have I more that's worth the knowing?
  What have I done that's worth the doing?
  What have I sought that I should shun?
  What duty have I left undone,
  Or into what new follies run?
  These self-inquiries are the road
  That lead to virtue and to God.
  • Isaac Watts, Self Examination.