Oneself Quotes

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

Belief in oneself is required for healing.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.