Know Thyself Quotes

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.

Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

Know thyself because what else is there to know?

Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.

Know thyself; this is the great object.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

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."

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

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.

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.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, Linnæus declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake.

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

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.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.