Self Knowing Quotes

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

  RZA

  Self, Knowing, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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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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  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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• 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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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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  All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

  James Thurber

  Running, Learning, Humor

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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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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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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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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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Do you know how powerful you are?

  Puff Daddy

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

  "10 Quotes From Diddy’s Howard Commencement Speech" by Iyana Robertson, www.vibe.com. May 11, 2014.

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• I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Sassy, Discovery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, History, Finding Yourself

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• Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Mean, Development And Growth

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• You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Powerful, Self Esteem

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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• There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Numbers, Finding Yourself

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• There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Acceptance, Self, Jewels

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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