Self-Knowledge Quotes
123 quotes by 105 authors
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Only the shallow know themselves.
— Oscar Wilde
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
— Virginia Woolf
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
— Sarah McLachlan
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I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in…
— Paulo Coelho
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Once upon a time is now.
— Emilie Autumn
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I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.
— Emilie Autumn
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The final mystery is oneself.
— Oscar Wilde
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You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust…
— Rumi
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Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
— Moliere
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I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
— Oscar Wilde
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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of…
— Walter Kirn
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I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
— William Drummond
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
— Lao Tzu
Who Wrote These Self-Knowledge Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 123 Self-Knowledge Quotes, led by these top contributors: