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title: "19 Think Oneself Quotes by 18 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Think Oneself quotes by 18 authors. Discover the best Think Oneself sayings and thoughts."
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> [“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/the-truest-way-to-be-deceived-is-to-think-oneself-more-knowing-than/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-r-burch/there-s-no-better-tonic-for-other-people-s-bad-ideas-than-to-think/)

[Michael R. Burch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-r-burch/)

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> [The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-de-rojas/the-first-step-towards-madness-is-to-think-oneself-wise/)

[Fernando de Rojas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-de-rojas/)

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> [That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-menen/that-is-the-whole-trouble-with-being-a-heretic-one-usually-must-think/)

[Aubrey Menen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-menen/)

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> [The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cate-blanchett/the-less-one-can-think-about-oneself-the-more-interesting-and/)

[Cate Blanchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cate-blanchett/)

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> [How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/how-one-hates-to-think-of-oneself-as-alone-how-one-avoids-it-it-seems/)

[Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/)

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> [“Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/hardly-even-does-one-think-of-oneself-but-only-how-to-escape-from/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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> [When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elsie-de-wolfe/when-one-begins-to-think-of-oneself-as-growing-old-one-is-already-old/)

[Elsie de Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elsie-de-wolfe/)

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> [“To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-schlumberge/to-have-an-independant-mind-to-think-for-oneself-not-to-follow/)

[Marcel Schlumberge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-schlumberge/)

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> [One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/one-trouble-to-be-a-professional-anything-in-the-united-states-is-to/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

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> [It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/it-is-as-commendable-to-think-well-of-oneself-when-alone-as-it-is/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-warner/it-does-not-seem-possible-to-think-of-oneself-as-normal-without/)

[Michael Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-warner/)

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> [The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-most-important-thing-is-not-to-think-very-much-about-oneself-to/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-mansfield/it-s-rather-nice-to-think-of-oneself-as-a-sailor-bending-over-the-map/)

[Katherine Mansfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katherine-mansfield/)

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> [It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/it-s-unnecessary-and-destructive-to-think-of-oneself-at-all-people/)

[Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/)

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> [it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-thirkell/it-is-rather-depressing-to-think-that-one-will-still-be-oneself-when/)

[Angela Thirkell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-thirkell/)

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> [One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/one-would-always-want-to-think-of-oneself-as-being-on-the-side-of/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

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> [“This is who she is. She is this movement here, these steps, this turn, this raising of this arm. It's a waste…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meg-howrey/this-is-who-she-is-she-is-this-movement-here-these-steps-this-turn/)

[Meg Howrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meg-howrey/)

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> [“The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sloan-wilson/the-trick-is-to-learn-to-believe-that-it-s-a-disconnected-world-a/)

[Sloan Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sloan-wilson/)

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