Self Quotes · Page 158

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

— F. H. Bradley

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

— Charles de Lint

Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.

— Frederick Lenz

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

— Sidney Jourard

The moment you teach someone be ready to be tested based off what you taught someone else

— Edward Shaylitsa

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

— Sadie Frost

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

— Lisa Mangum

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

— Sun Tzu

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they…

— Benjamin Hoff

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically…

— Lionel Trilling

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with…

— Barack Obama

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

— Beatrice Webb

“Samkit (the right belief that 'I am pure Soul') is when merit karma (punya) and demerit karma (paap) become worthy of being…

— Dada Bhagwan

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist,…

— Alan Watts

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die…

— Ravi Zacharias

“That which comes into understanding is darshan (vision) and that which comes into experience is Gnan (knowledge).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may…

— Neel Burton

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for…

— Patti Smith

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear…

— Annie Besant

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually…

— Steve Martin

“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not…

— Erik Pevernagie

I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and…

— Sam Hamill

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run…

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm already self-motivated, so I don't really pay attention what people are saying.

— Terry Rozier

There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

— Seth

To err is human but to correct one self shows your character.

— Lalit Mohan Pande

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

— George Matthew Adams

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

— Fred Rogers

Its not that I dont like anyone else. . . Its just that I only associate my self with my people

— Lboogz

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

— Abraham Verghese

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.

— Frederick Lenz

“War presents itself as necessary for self-protection, when in fact it is necessary for self-identification.”

— James P. Carse

If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

— Zach Hunter

The advice I would've given my younger self is, 'Be patient; just hold on.'

— Shaun Livingston

Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

— Anonymous

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

— Sugata Mitra

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it

— Douglas William Jerrold

Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

— Daniel Kahneman