“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become… — Marcel Schlumberge Copy Share Image
One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological, — Michael Warner Copy Share Image
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go… — Katherine Mansfield 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
it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“This is who she is. She is this movement here, these steps, this turn, this raising of this arm. It's a waste… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
“The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
