Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge… — Andrea Dworkin
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has… — Greta Christina
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? — Vernor Vinge
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make… — Thomas Ligotti
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st… — Gavin Newsom
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer
For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the… — Unknown Author
Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government… — Edwin Feulner
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in… — Steven Erikson
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel
Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and… — John Edward
Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish. — James Van Praagh
I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach… — Louise Hay
When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens. — Louise Hay
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction.… — Christa Wolf
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's… — Paul Krassner
When all my endeavor is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavor is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my… — Nicholas of Cusa
There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization. — Meher Baba
When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it.… — Meher Baba
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of… — Glen Cook
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. — Jeff VanderMeer
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence. — Francois Fenelon
The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These… — Francois Fenelon
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to… — Arnold J. Toynbee

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