Self Knowledge Quotes

Self-knowledge is power.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"

To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Ignorance’ (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and ‘Knowledge’ (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.

Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All.

In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication.

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.

Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

I knew what my job was it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

If I could know me I could know the universe.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

My closest relation is myself.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.