Knowing Oneself Quotes

• To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Motivational, Inspiring, Should

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Discovery, Enlightenment

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• One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Discovery

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

  Galileo Galilei

  Greatest Wisdom, Oneself, Knows

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• Life is like a sandwich!
  Birth as one slice,
  and death as the other.
  What you put in-between
  the slices is up to you.
  Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

  Alan Rufus

  Life, Up To You, Sandwiches

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• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Psychology, Action

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Personality, Needs

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

  Bruce Lee

  Relationship, Motivation, Acting

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Mastery

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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• Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Self, Evaluation

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• It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Easy, Paint, Difficult

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• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  Saint Basil

  Eye, Sight, Mind

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.147, CUA Press

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• Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

  Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig

  Love, Fashion, Evil

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• To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

  Veronique Vienne

  Running, Enlightened, Knows

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• How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Action, Introspection, Knows

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• What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

  Ann Bridge

  Two, Envy, Accepting

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• To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.

  Sherman Paul

  Dance, Dancing, Movement

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• [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

  Flannery O'Connor

  Humility, Self, Way

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.35, Macmillan

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• One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Yoga, Wish, Unreal

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.72, Rajpal & Sons

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• Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

  John W. Gardner

  Running, Being Yourself, Clever

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• Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

  Andrew Schneider

  Degrees, Spirituality, Insight

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• The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Purpose, Life Is

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.41, Oxford University Press

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