Top 100 Know Oneself Quotes
#2. Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
Carl Van Vechten
#3. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
#4. It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Vincent Van Gogh
#5. When one is young, he thought, one thinks that one will never know oneself. But the knowledge comes later; if not all, then some. An important amount.
Amanda Coplin
#6. It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
Suman Jyoty Bhante
#8. To know oneself is a journey that requires a beginning
Jack Sanger
#9. One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#10. Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardner
#12. To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility ...
Flannery O'Connor
#13. I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.
Elena Ferrante
#14. There are three things in life that are extremely hard.
Steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.
Benjamin Franklin
#17. Cadvan smiled. "We are all many," he said. "But most of us don't have the privilege of understanding that as clearly as you do. It is hard to know oneself, but until we do, we cannot know why we act as we do. It's a lifetime's quest, and it never ends.
Alison Croggon
#18. One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
Carl Jung
#19. To know oneself means above all to know what one likes
Marty Rubin
#20. To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.
Sherman Paul
#21. One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
#23. One can know oneself only with one's own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else's. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?
Ramana Maharshi
#24. To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom.
Pierre Hadot
#25. It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
Sydney J. Harris
#26. The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable.
Blaise Pascal
#27. Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
Franz Grillparzer
#28. There is nothing very remarkable about
being immortal; with the exception of mankind,
all creatures are immortal, for they know
nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and
incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges
#30. Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.
Rajneesh
#31. It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
Laozi
#32. Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.
Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig
#33. To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle
Yuu Watase
#34. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee
#35. Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.
Bruce Lee
#36. Person describes himself throughout life. To know oneself perfectly means to die.
Albert Camus
#37. The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
Adi Shankara
#39. To know oneself and one's end or goal in life is true wisdom - knowledge of the heart more than the head.
James Kubicki
#40. In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Saint Basil
#41. I told him because I wanted what everybody wants - to be known. To know oneself, and to tell the whole story of that self, and to be loved anyway.
Jan Ellison
#42. One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#43. In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.
Kenny Loggins
#44. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#45. I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it's not me.
Fernando Pessoa
#46. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
Oscar Wilde
#47. I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why
Steven Magee
#48. As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better.
D. Morgenstern
#49. If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration.
Julia Woodman
#50. The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#51. Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!
Steve Karagiannis
#52. You know,' she said, 'it's a good thing, now and again, to take stock of oneself in life. To see where one has gone wrong. I
Daphne Du Maurier
#53. And yet I know that expressing oneself necessarily means being different. The writer's voice is a singular one, solitary. Art is nothing other than the freedom to express oneself in any language, in whatever manner, dressed any which way.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#54. In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#55. How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way - we don't know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear ...
Michel De Salzmann
#56. If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#57. A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.
Anthony Liccione
#58. Of course I'm frivolous," [Antryg] replied mildly. "You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
Barbara Hambly
#59. One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'
Dan Rather
#60. One must devote oneself to figuring out that one must live for the good, for its own sake. It was a secular morality. Contemporaries did not know what to call a thing like that - he questioned their every faith, their every way of life - so they called it atheism.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#61. I wasn't crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn't feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing.
Benyf
#62. To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom
Andre Gide
#63. As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
Joan Baez
#64. Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?
Brian Evenson
#65. You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.
Moffat Machingura
#66. All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
#67. A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.
Tobsha Learner
#68. The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost.
Robertson Davies
#69. It feels nice to know about things and about oneself.
Aporva Kala
#70. A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#71. I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
Cherie Lunghi
#72. the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#73. No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.
Louis L'Amour
#74. If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.
Marvin J. Ashton
#75. Be patient with yourself; trust in the Universe; find mentors; know that you can achieve whatever you set out to do.
Diane L. Dunton
#76. A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.
Joseph Brodsky
#77. You know -" Bailey pulled her aside "-you're stoning yourself. You have to stop doing that and remember what happened when those people wanted to stone that girl. Jesus said for the one who hadn't sinned to cast the first stone. But you're saving people the trouble by stoning yourself.
Brenda Minton
#78. Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Alan W. Watts
#79. To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!
Ivan Turgenev
#80. Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.
Steve Maraboli
#81. Is it not necessary for each to know for oneself what is the right means of livelihood? If we were avaricious, envious, seeking power, then our means of livelihood will correspond to our inward demands and so produce a world of competition, ruthlessness, oppression, ultimately ending in war.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#82. A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.
Chaim Potok
#83. I just want you to know that we didn't do anything but talk and sleep - sleep sleep," he quickly adds. "Like with eyes closed and hands to oneself and dreaming. Innocent dreams. I would never do anything behind your back. I mean, never anything dishonorable. I mean-
Stephanie Perkins
#84. I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
#85. Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.
Richie Norton
#86. In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we've lived with the longest, we still don't know very well - ourselves.
Charles F. Glassman
#87. I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
Socrates
#89. I can't recognize myself
lately;
I'm someone I used to know.
I think you took me with you
and I was hoping you could
just leave me somewhere else,
because I've been waiting
for myself,
waiting for all the pieces
to come home.
Robert M. Drake
#90. What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.
George Saunders
#91. We are to build ourselves up, get to know God's will, build systems,structures, work hard towards His will and stop expecting miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
#92. It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes.
Kate Williams
#93. ...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn't a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn't a goal; it's a road.
Garon Whited
#94. My belief is to achieve success in any scheme one has to make oneself master of that scheme, know it inside and out, know every detail.
E.L. James
#95. Ah! it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself. To arrive at what one really believes, one must speak through lips different from one's own. To know the truth one must imagine myriads of falsehoods.
Oscar Wilde
#96. I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.
Josef Sudek
#97. Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend.
Jonathan Bailey
#98. As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.
Charlie Chaplin
#99. A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
Anni Albers
