Top 76 To Know Thyself Quotes
#1. 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
#2. A wise man was once asked what was the most difficult truth in life to uncover. His reply was: 'to know thyself'.
Jean Sasson
#4. To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.
L. Frank Baum
#5. One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
Steven Pinker
#6. 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
#8. The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
Francis Quarles
#11. To know thyself
in others self-concern;
Would'st thou know others? read thyself
and learn!
Friedrich Schiller
#12. 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
#13. The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.
Johnny Hunt
#14. 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
#15. To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
#16. 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
#17. if the "Know thyself" of the oracle were an easy thing for every man, it would not be held to be a divine injunction.
Plutarch
#18. I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.
James Richardson
#19. Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?
Epictetus
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.
Vironika Tugaleva
#26. ...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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!
C. JoyBell C.
#31. 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
#32. The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.
Jean Houston
#35. So, Don't Mix Up Your Way To Write Your Life Story With Others, Then Definitely It Won't Sell. You Only Know What You're Encountering In Every Single Step. Everyone's Shoes Won't Fit In Your Feet ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#36. Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. ... walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend.
Tsegaye Gebre Medhin
#38. If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it's a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded.
Vironika Tugaleva
#39. A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#40. Know thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
#41. In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.
Mordecai Richler
#42. Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#43. Know that the fault ye find in others is a reflection of a fault in thyself. Be to others just as you would have others be to thee, and ye will remove much of that.
Edgar Cayce
#44. Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.
Jostein Gaarder
#45. You can't be a big dreamer if you don't where you are going. You can't know where you are going unless you first know where you are.
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. All beings are vast multidimensional masters. They may be exploring divinity or limitation, but they are masters nonetheless. Then it becomes ok to simply allow them their process.
Ariel Tachi-ren
#47. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.
Adam Rodriguez
#48. There were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.
Elizabeth Bear
#49. Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
#50. In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
Menander
#51. 'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Menander
#53. Know thyself because what else is there to know?
Sarah Connor
#54. 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
#55. Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.
Ralph Blum
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Know thyself." Sure, of course,
you must. But afterwards,
the project is to make yourself
a stranger to yourself once more.
John Brehm
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. My friend ... care for your psyche ... know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -Socrates
Socrates
#63. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.
David Clement-Davies
#73. 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
#75. 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
#76. It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.
Richie Norton
