Identity Quote by Robert Kegan

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

— Terence McKenna

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

— Terence McKenna

“You are a self and an other. Your 'others' are in part your own creation. This in turn affects and shapes your experiences of…

— Stephanie Dowrick

To understand others, don't use your own perception. To understand yourself, don't use others' perceptions.

— Anmol Andore

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

— Margaret Bourke-White

“We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities, associations, repetitions,…

— Siri Hustvedt

When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental…

— Eckhart Tolle

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The only way we can come to understand other beings is by tainting them with a bit of ourselves. When we are all covered…

— Karin Altenberg

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

— Clarence Darrow

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and…

— Judith M Bardwick

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren