Knowledge Quotes

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

I am better than my reputation.

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

Every man shall bear his own burden.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.

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

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

My closest relation is myself.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

If I could know me I could know the universe.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

I knew what my job was it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

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

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.

As simple as it sounds we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices by making the most of the talents we've been given.

You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.

I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.