Self Knowledge Quotes

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

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 did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

God wastes nothing.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

I am because my little dog knows me.

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.

He has to come to it on his own.

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

Why has no one come to pry me out of here?- Cersei

The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.

Ignorance of ourselves must be folly.

There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure."-Serena Jade

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.