Knowing oneself Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knowing oneself Knows Oneself
Being yourself doesn't mean you stop improving yourself. It means you know what's in you and explore it more. Trust me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. — Steve Young Copy Share Image
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It often happens that I don't know myself, which is typical in those who know themselves. I look at myself in the various disguises… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself? — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition.” — Laurie Nadel Copy Share Image
“The most incredible architecture Is the architecture of Self, which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates… — Allan Rufus Copy Share Image
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