Self Knowledge Quotes

Self Knowledge Quote of the day

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Self-knowledge is power.

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

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.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

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

Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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