Self Knowledge Quotes

Knowing yourself means being aware of your potential and trusting that you are always growing into it.

​Through ignorance a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless claims, but when his mind is illuminated by Self-Knowledge, all sectarian quarrels disappear.

Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.

When you build a relationship with your inner self, you will never be alone.

As I think of myself, so I shall be.

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.

When we own our beliefs, we have clear boundaries. We know what we believe and we know what others believe. There is no confusion. Our identity is strong to us and everyone else.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

If you know who you are, it makes you immune to criticism

Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.

Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

Know him know me.

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

If I am not for myself who will be?

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

I am better than my reputation.

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.