Know Yourself Quotes

200 quotes by 149 authors

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. — Oscar Wilde
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out… — George MacDonald
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going… — George Orwell
We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself. — Sarah McLachlan
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself… — C.S. Lewis
Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever… — Janet Fitch
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various… — Epictetus
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. — Eckhart Tolle
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that… — Don DeLillo
I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new… — Jodi Picoult
Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein
Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? — D. H. Lawrence
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping… — Ray Bradbury
There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to… — Aidan Chambers
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime. — Bruce Lee
you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits — Paulo Coelho
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. — Fernando Pessoa

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