Self Knowledge Quotes

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

I know everything except myself.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

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

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

You must become like yourself.

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

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Self-knowledge makes me happy.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.

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?

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

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

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

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

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.

Self-knowledge is power.

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

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

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

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

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.