Top 100 Quotes About Know Thyself
#1. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.
Aleister Crowley
#2. The body is the house of God. That is why it is said "Man know thyself".
Unknown
#3. The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.
Bill Buford
#4. Now thyself is more important than Know thyself.
Mel Brooks
#6. Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid
thyself of, when thou wilt.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. There were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.
Elizabeth Bear
#8. Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
#9. Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.
Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.
Rumi
#10. A wise man was once asked what was the most difficult truth in life to uncover. His reply was: 'to know thyself'.
Jean Sasson
#11. In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
Menander
#12. This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
Juvenal
#13. 'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Menander
#14. One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.
Thomas Lickona
#17. Know thyself because what else is there to know?
Sarah Connor
#19. To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
#20. I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#21. Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.
Tyler J. Hebert
#22. Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.
Ralph Blum
#23. If I could go back in time to when I was 18yrs old, I would take better notes this time, because back then I knew everything.
Michael Nuccio
#24. It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, 'Know thyself,' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George Eliot
#25. The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.
Johnny Hunt
#26. Know thyself." Sure, of course,
you must. But afterwards,
the project is to make yourself
a stranger to yourself once more.
John Brehm
#27. Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
Oscar Wilde
#28. A Gem Is Always A Gem. It'll Shine Bright Like Always Even If You Put It In Charcoal. You Just Need To Open Your Eyes & Heart To Find Them In Human ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#29. Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
Akhenaton
#30. Know thyself? Why not forget yourself instead?
Marty Rubin
#31. Know thyself and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and the universe.
Various
#32. Seek to know thyself by means of thyself, keeping thy mind, intellect and senses, under control; for self is thy friend as it is also thy foe.
Anonymous
#33. Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.
Pearl S. Buck
#34. The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#35. To know thyself
in others self-concern;
Would'st thou know others? read thyself
and learn!
Friedrich Schiller
#36. Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
Friedrich Schiller
#37. Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.
Iyanla Vanzant
#38. No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Pythagoras
#39. The visual screen in which your destiny is sealed and could be unlocked with intuition and knowledge.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#40. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.
Adam Rodriguez
#42. ..they all emulated and admired and were students of Spartan education, could tell their wisdom was of this sort by the brief but memorable remarks they each uttered when they met, writing what is on every man's lips: Know thyself, and Nothing too much.
Plato
#43. Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
Pythagoras
#45. The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way.
Archibald Marwizi
#46. To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
Karl A. Menninger
#49. Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
#50. Do thine own work, and know thyself.
Plato
#51. I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.
John Gay
#52. Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Sivananda
#53. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
Gautama Buddha
#54. The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#59. Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.
Gelett Burgess
#60. Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
Juvenal
#61. The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
Francis Quarles
#62. It's important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
#63. 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
#64. Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.
Robert Breault
#65. The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
Adam Smith
#66. 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
#67. To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.
David Clement-Davies
#69. Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.
Akhenaton
#71. Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.
Akhenaton
#72. Know thyself is one of the fundamental commands that aim at human strength and happiness.
Erich Fromm
#73. It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.
Richie Norton
#74. I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe."
"'Know thyself.'"
"We try, sir.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#75. Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day
Evan Sutter
#76. My friend ... care for your psyche ... know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -Socrates
Socrates
#78. O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#80. Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
#83. There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle ... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
Plutarch
#84. Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#85. You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take preventive action. Relax, boychick. When they get to know you better they will realize that they were right. You are a shit.
Mordecai Richler
#86. ...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
#87. Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Ramana Maharshi
#90. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.
Vironika Tugaleva
#91. Life is a conversation with yourself. And who are you if not the eternal presence behind everything that is, was, and will be? Like this, the blow of each breeze and the beauty of each sunset can teach you about yourself, if you listen. If you hear.
Vironika Tugaleva
#92. All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.
Mark Victor Hansen
#93. Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#94. I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems beautiful to me.
Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.
Walt Whitman
#95. learned early on the motto "Know thyself." I think if you have a unique point of view and stay relevant and authentic, you will make an impression. You have to be excited and passionate about your ideas to make them work.
Sophia Amoruso
#96. Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
John Ruskin
#97. The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.
Robert Trivers
#98. It's only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away, leaving you bare." Somehow, his black eyes darkened, the venom in his words more deadly than a viper's bite. "Let me degrade you, Katherine.
Dianna Hardy
#100. We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
