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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. -
George Eliot
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. -
Franz Kafka
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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures. -
Carl Jung
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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you. -
David Harold Fink
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. -
Meister Eckhart
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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. -
Charles Caleb Colton
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. -
Pierre Charron
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. -
Elias Canetti
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. -
Albert Camus
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. -
Pearl S Buck
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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. -
Claude M Bristol
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding. -
Walter Benjamin
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. -
Benjamin Franklin
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. -
Josh Billings
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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. -
Pearl Bailey
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