Knowing Oneself Quotes

30 quotes by 25 authors

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the… — Saint Basil
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself. — Andrew Schneider
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total… — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is… — Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. — Michael Novak
To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is… — Sherman Paul
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself. — Laozi
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our… — Sydney J. Harris
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. — Charles de Gaulle
Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself? — Carl Van Vechten
It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. — Adi Shankara
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. — Vincent Van Gogh
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an… — Alasdair MacIntyre
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. — Bruce Lee
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing… — Blaise Pascal

Who Wrote These Knowing Oneself Quotes

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