Top 100 To 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. 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
#7. To know oneself is a journey that requires a beginning
Jack Sanger
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. There are three things in life that are extremely hard.
Steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.
Benjamin Franklin
#13. 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
#14. One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
Carl Jung
#15. To know oneself means above all to know what one likes
Marty Rubin
#16. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#24. Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.
Rajneesh
#25. It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
Laozi
#26. 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
#27. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee
#28. 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
#29. Person describes himself throughout life. To know oneself perfectly means to die.
Albert Camus
#30. 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
#31. To know oneself and one's end or goal in life is true wisdom - knowledge of the heart more than the head.
James Kubicki
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
Oscar Wilde
#35. I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why
Steven Magee
#36. 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
#37. If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration.
Julia Woodman
#38. The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.
Anthony Liccione
#45. One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'
Dan Rather
#46. 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
#47. To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom
Andre Gide
#48. Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?
Brian Evenson
#49. You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.
Moffat Machingura
#50. 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
#51. It feels nice to know about things and about oneself.
Aporva Kala
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Be patient with yourself; trust in the Universe; find mentors; know that you can achieve whatever you set out to do.
Diane L. Dunton
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.
Steve Maraboli
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
Socrates
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes.
Kate Williams
#73. ...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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#79. Smiling despair. No solution, but constantly exercising an authority over myself that I know is useless. The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.
Albert Camus
#80. I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry
Ayn Rand
#81. But we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to keep to oneself and to avoid the uneasy commerce of offense and even insult. Either one shakes hands with someone or one ignores him or one kills him. What else is there?
Walker Percy
#82. How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?
Nico J. Genes
#83. If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#84. If you are not actively seeking the truth, you are destined to only know what people tell you, and people will only tell you what they want you to know.
Jack Mierop
#85. To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
Socrates
#86. I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.
Kate O'Mara
#87. To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle
Yuu Watase
#88. The plague of scientific minds is the inability to stop oneself from digging into things you know you shouldn't touch. Some answers ought to be left alone and never discovered by mortals.
S.R. Ford
#89. Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneously the most vulnerable and most powerful place to be. Here we embody paradox. We stand our ground and surrender completely. Here we know the full power of the Feminine.
Lucy H. Pearce
#90. It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#91. Vanity's a debilitating affliction. You're so absorbed in yourself it's impossible to love anyone other than oneself, leaving you weak without realization of it. It's quite sad. You've no idea what you're missing either. You will never know real love and your life will pas you by.
Fisher Amelie
#92. Life is not about reward and punishment," said Xuen. "It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.
Christie Golden
#93. There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.
Joyce Rachelle
#94. I know better than to say Orlando fills this empty void I've had inside of me. He doesn't fix me, he makes me want to fix myself. Makes me realize that I can fix myself. When he's around, it's like there's nothing I can't do.
Lucy Hawkins
#95. From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.
Albert Camus
#96. it's okay to love onseLf unconditionally so tHat U truly know U &
can recognize the embedded healing & curing aspects &
properties buried with-in U & Eye (all of us]
Irucka Ajani Embry
#97. I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#98. It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
Octavio Paz
#99. I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#100. We all know people who become strongly identified with, and attached to, their intelligence. It can become a big ego trap, harmful to oneself or others. Intelligence can also be a great blessing, providing invaluable clarity.
Joseph Goldstein
