Self Knowledge Quotes
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. (Quote by - Wilma Rudolph)
People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do. (Quote by - Patricia Fripp)
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. (Quote by - Karen Horney)
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. (Quote by - Carol Shields)
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age. (Quote by - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel)
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
He knows the universe and does not know himself. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
You never find yourself until you face the truth. (Quote by - Pearl Bailey)
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. (Quote by - Seneca)
Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward. (Quote by - Paule Marshall)
No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. (Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go. (Quote by - Georges Gurdjieff)
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. (Quote by - Susan Faludi)
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. (Quote by - F. H. Bradley)
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. (Quote by - Mary Lou Retton)
To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic. (Quote by - George Santayana)
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient, too. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't. (Quote by - Patricia Fripp)
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. (Quote by - Charlotte P. Gilman)
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have. (Quote by - Anita Baker)
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being, your own hidden being, you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it. (Quote by - Cynthia Propper Seton)
Freedom is knowing who you really are. (Quote by - Linda Thomson)
You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out. (Quote by - Tina Turner)
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. (Quote by - Diana, Princess of Wales)
I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul. (Quote by - Margaret Chase Smith)
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. (Quote by - Teresa of Avila)
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others. (Quote by - Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus)
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. (Quote by - Queen Elizabeth II)
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion. (Quote by - Billie Jean King)
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. (Quote by - Marilyn French)
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. (Quote by - Beryl Markham)
Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself. (Quote by - Alice Koller)
We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live. (Quote by - Norvin G. McGranahan)
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. (Quote by - F. H. Bradley)
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of every friend and every foe. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
To understand is to forgive, even oneself. (Quote by - Alexander Chase)
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool. (Quote by - Chuang-tzu)
If I could know me, I could know the universe. (Quote by - Shirley MacLaine)
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. (Quote by - Caroline Bird)
