Capability Quote by Albert Bandura

I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories…

— Joe

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that…

— Frederick Lenz

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features…

— Antonio Damasio

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

— Steve Maraboli

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I…

— Anonymous

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would…

— Antonio Damasio

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

— Josiah Royce

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

— Rollo May

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

— Bryan Kest

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits…

— Stephen Covey

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

— Jean Berko Gleason