What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.
Charles DickensTags: self-deception self-perception mirrors
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao TzuTags: understanding self-perception self-knowledge
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
SaadiTags: beauty self-perception self-consciousness
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.
Wilhelm ReichTags: success knowledge self-perception self-knowledge pride orgone projection emotional-plague
Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra."
("We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.")
Tags: illusions self-perception grandeur self-image importance italy self-centeredness sicily leopard gattopardi
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well? What makes them think they can boast of the same thing that in women brings only shame?
Moderata FonteTags: empowerment gender morality feminism sin misogyny hypocrisy inequality self-perception stereotypes men-and-women double-standards vice clichés preconceptions social-norms
...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust
Nathanael WestTags: disillusionment capitalism conformity social-commentary self-perception american-dream commercialization
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
Alain de BottonTags: success self-perception feelings
I was fucked-up in some essential way that other people could see, but I couldn’t.
Jane DevinTags: self-perception damaged
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
David MitchellTags: honesty self-perception good-intentions self-justification
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