Know Yourself Quotes

• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

  Confucius

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving

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• Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Self Esteem

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• Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Knowing, Impossible, Life Is

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.2120, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

  Mark McGwire

  Baseball, Want, Firsts

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• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Inspiration

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

  Toni Collette

  World, Our Relationship, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything.

  Suzuki Shosan

  Knowing Who You Are, Matter, Knows

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• To grow yourself, you must know yourself.

  John C. Maxwell

  Grows, Knows

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

  Thales

  Life, Development, Personal Growth

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Henry Southgate, p. 338, 1862.

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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

  Darren Johnson

  Order, Important, Action

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• Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self Esteem, World, Antiques

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.305, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Deep Thought, Ramifications

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

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• It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Knowledge

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Discovery, Self, Treasure

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• Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

  Bernard Baruch

  Passion, Brain, Prejudice

  Bernard M. Baruch (1954). “A Philosophy For Our Time”

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