Famous Quotes - Tags - Self-knowledge

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  • ... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition... More
  • ... that great blindness which we are all under in respect to our own selves. More
  • ... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the... More
  • A man in his own secret meditation
    Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made
    In art or... More
  • A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.—What was that god thinking who counseled,... More
  • A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to... More
  • Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, “know thyself,” but as if... More
  • An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. More
  • And the shuttle never falters, but to draw an encouraging conclusion
    From this would be... More
  • But how do we recognize ourselves? How can man know himself? He is a dark and hidden thing;... More
  • But seldom the laurel wreath is seen
    Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
    There’s a light... More
  • Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast... More
  • Does any here know me? This is not Lear.
    Does Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes? More
  • Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The... More
  • Duke (in disguise). I pray you, sir, of what disposition was the Duke?
    Escalus. One that,... More
  • England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private... More
  • Feste. The better for my foes and the worse for my friends.
    Orsino. Just the contrary: the... More
  • Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe! More
  • Greatness knows itself. More
  • He knows the universe and does not know himself. More
  • He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment. More
  • He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.... He must... More
  • How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. Try to do your duty,... More
  • Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks... More
  • I came back to myself,
    To the real work, to
    “What is to be done.” More
  • I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man’s jests. More
  • I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass. More
  • I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young
    And weep because I know all things now:
    I... More
  • I have much ado to know myself. More
  • I know myself now, and I feel within me
    A peace above all earthly dignities,
    A still and... More
  • I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against
    whom I know most faults. More
  • If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further.... More
  • If one knows oneself and knows one’s enemy, in a hundred battles one will have a hundred... More
  • If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they... More
  • If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would... More
  • It is as easy to deceive oneself and not be aware of it, as it is hard to deceive others without... More
  • It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, “Know thyself,” and too... More
  • I’ll read enough
    When I do see the very book indeed
    Where all my sins are writ, and... More
  • Know thyself. More
  • Know thyself.
    (Gnothi seauton) More
  • Lear. Who is it that can tell me who I am? More
  • Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is... More
  • Man is exceedingly well defended against himself, against being scouted out and besieged by... More
  • Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is,... More
  • Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. More
  • Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of... More
  • Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which... More
  • My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred,
    And I myself see not the bottom of it. More
  • Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of... More
  • O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how... More
  • Obedient to the light
    That shone within his soul, he went, More
  • One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. More
  • One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of... More
  • One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. More
  • Only I’m a better hand
    At knowing what I can stand
    Without them sending a van
    Or I... More
  • Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are... More
  • Our lives teach us who we are. More
  • Repentance keeps my heart impure;
    But what am I that dare
    Fancy that I can
    Better... More
  • She has composed, so long, a self with which to welcome him,
    Companion to his self for her,... More
  • She imagines herself clean as a fish,
    evasive, solitary, dumb. Her prayer:
    to make peace... More
  • Since you know you cannot see yourself
    So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
    Will... More
  • So you finally got wise to yourself, did you? Funny thing about you women. Most of you don’t... More
  • Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific,... More
  • Still, I search in these woods and find nothing worse
    than myself, caught between the grapes... More
  • Test every work of intellect or faith
    And everything that your own hands have... More
  • The chief imagination of Christendom,
    Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself
    That he... More
  • The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill... More
  • The eye sees not itself
    But by reflection. More
  • The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
    But in ourselves, that we are underlings. More
  • The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know... More
  • The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others,... More
  • The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind. More
  • The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our... More
  • The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns... More
  • The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. More
  • Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
    Accept yourself whole, accept the... More
  • There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not... More
  • Therefore I stay outside,
    Believing this; and they maul to and fro,
    Believing that; and... More
  • Things said or done long years ago,
    Or things I did not do or say
    But though that I might... More
  • Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves. More
  • Thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul,
    And there I see such black and grained spots
    As... More
  • Though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a... More
  • To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with... More
  • To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We... More
  • Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and... More
  • Uncontradicting solitude
    Supports me on its giant palm;
    And like a sea-anemone
    or... More
  • We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with... More
  • We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge—and with good reason. We have never sought... More
  • We are very far from always knowing our own wishes. More
  • We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves. More
  • We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world—introspection. We... More
  • What does Africa,—what does the West stand for? Is not our own interior white on the chart?... More
  • What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but... More
  • When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from... More
  • When we talk about the writer’s country we are liable to forget that no matter what particular... More
  • You must call up every strength you own
    And you can rip off the whole facial mask. More
  • You never know yourself till you know more than your body. More
  • You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie... More
  • ‘Tis not need we know our every thought
    Or see the work shop where each mask is... More
  • ‘Tis the infirmity of his age, yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself. More
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