Self Knowing Quotes

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground.

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

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.

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.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

Do you know how powerful you are?

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.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Know thy self, know thy enemy.

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.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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.