Self Knowledge Quotes

Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.

Gnan (knowledge of the Self) can never become agnan (knowledge other than the self, of relative world). It is called agnan only when the focused applied awareness of the Self changes.

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

If you know who you are, you do not need to consider yourself to be worse or better than someone else

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.

Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comforted by the realization that, in fact, he never left.

Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternally.

Gnan’ [True Knowledge, Knowledge of one’s own self], is freedom itself. It keeps one in Moksha [liberated state] and prevents [karmic] bondage.

i know more than i know and must learn it from myself

To succeed and reach your life goals, you must know who you are

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day, " Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

Dreams are an insight into our psychology: they are what we are, but stripped of the conventions and norms of psychology, and the rules of the physical world…

If you know who you are, it reduces your fear of trials

If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not

When you know who you are, you won’t have false modesty

I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.

If you know who you are, this knowledge will attract people in all types of situation and circumstances to support your intentions and ideas

There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

To know oneself and one’s end or goal in life is true wisdom—knowledge of the heart more than the head.

Walk in the light before the dawn of darkness.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.