Self-knowledge Quotes

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death wit...

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effectin...

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggl...

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we sho...

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe th...

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital eve...

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternal...

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed...

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

One last point. Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowled...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pr...

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it i...

If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger ...

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing – to present my unhappy rea...

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enou...

Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brai...

Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comfor...

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague craving...

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his ...

Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whateve...

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God i...

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of ...

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselv...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there m...

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of m...

...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual...

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability t...

Why has no one come to pry me out of here?- Cersei

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almsho...

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not...

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreaso...

Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn...

At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heaven...

...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, a...

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find ...

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be h...

The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to esc...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If yo...

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

There is no method of self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some ...

If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system ne...

The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a c...

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to...

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d...

A dragon is a confusion at the heart of things, a law unto himself. He embraces good, evil, and indi...

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but und...

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you ...

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectu...

[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't thi...

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now...

I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength—and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fe...

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

When he told F. of his disgust at the eyelid's movement, he must have been sixteen. When he decided ...

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the ...

Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betra...

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I wi...

The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no altern...

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by t...

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards e...

Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative...

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. ...

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good s...

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is...

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibil...

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a ...

What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it sa...

In the months after the relationship ends, a person can seem to grow at a lightning rate, like in a ...

The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterward...

You only grow when you are alone.

One of my luckiest instincts lay in being able to tell when I was happy— at the time, not afterwards...

– The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater.– The sign of doo...

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if th...

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-...

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without t...

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory-...

Everything is music for the born musician.