one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing. — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself. I particularly love… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others.… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
