Self Knowledge Quotes

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

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

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

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

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

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

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

Self knowledge is always bad news.