Self-knowledge Quotes
29 quotations about Self-knowledge
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.
Our lives teach us who we are.
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
Know thyself.
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
Authors on Self-knowledge
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Francis H. Bradley
Claude M. Bristol
David Harold Fink
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Benjamin Franklin
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Tom Hopkins
Franz Kafka
Thomas Kempis
Jean De La Fontaine
Lao-Tzu
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Beryl Markham
Alexander Pope
Blum Ralph
Salman Rushdie
Mark Rutherford
Seneca