Knowing Oneself Quotes

#1. As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage. #Quote by Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#2. I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it's not me. #Quote by Fernando Pessoa

#3. 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. #Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be. #Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#5. The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves. #Quote by Bryant McGill

#6. Being single is like being an artist, not because creating a functional single life is an art form, but because it requires the same close attention to one's singular needs, as well as the will and focus to fulfill them. Just as the artist arranges her life around her creativity, sacrificing conventional comforts and even social acceptance, sleeping and eating according to her own rhythms, so that her talent thrives above all else, nurtured the way a child might be, so a single person has to think hard to decipher what makes her happiest and most fulfilled. #Quote by Kate Bolick

#7. When ppl say they got ur back. Is like saying I'll pray for u. They don't actually do it. It just sounds good at the moment. Depend on self. #Quote by J. Wrice Sr.

#8. How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them? #Quote by Nico J. Genes

#9. To know oneself is one of the most difficult things because in the observation of myself I come to a conclusion about what I am seeing; and the next observation is through that conclusion. Can one observe the actual anger without any conclusion, without saying right, wrong, good, bad? Can one observe holistically? Self-knowledge is not knowing oneself, but knowing every movement of thought. Because the self is the thought, the image, the image of K and the image of the `me.' So, watch every movement of thought, never letting one thought go without realizing what it is. Try it. Do it and you will see what takes place. This gives muscle to the brain.
from: Exploration into Insight, Foreword #Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. 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. #Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself? #Quote by Carl Van Vechten

#12. It isn't the words we speak that make us who we are. Or even the deeds we do. It is the secrets buried in our hearts. #Quote by Thrity Umrigar

#13. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in. #Quote by Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. #Quote by Bruce Lee

#15. ...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn't a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn't a goal; it's a road. #Quote by Garon Whited

#16. Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition. #Quote by Laurie Nadel

#17. As you begin to Awaken.. You discover yourself sitting in nature.. flowing like the river.. Trying to understand the purpose.. then realizing "Nature is Happening, that is its purpose".. You are just like the river flowing through nature.. Your purpose is to be like nature. Start Now.. in the precious moments.. for its the only time that exists. #Quote by Jonathan Bailey

#18. Every heartbeat a syllable for words I can't speak, to explain what I want from him. What I want from myself. To know and be known, totally and completely. To be someone worth knowing. #Quote by Ryan Galloway

#19. Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. #Quote by Adi Shankara

#20. Invest your time to know your self. Things which are meant for you follows you in your way. #Quote by Giridhar Alwar

#21. Self-awareness is one of the preeminent aspects of humankind. If a person fails to know oneself, or loses contact with oneself in a tumultuous world of noise and self-pleasing diversions, he or she lives like an unconscious android. #Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. #Quote by Carl Jung

#23. So, if we really want to create a different world, a different relationship between human beings, a different attitude toward life, it is essential that we should first understand ourselves, is it not? This does not mean self-centered concentration, which leads to utter misery. What I am suggesting is that without self-knowledge, without deeply knowing oneself, all inquiry, all thought, all conclusions, opinions, and values have very little meaning. Most of us are conditioned - conditioned as Christians, as Muslims, or what you will, and within that narrow area we have our being. Our minds are conditioned by society, by education, by the culture about us, and without understanding the total process of that conditioning, our search, our knowledge, our inquiry can only lead to further mischief, to greater misery, which is what is actually happening. #Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

#24. Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. #Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

#25. We repeat the shout of the Universe. You and I blend together. You are one word and I am another. #Quote by Robin Rumi

#26. Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing. #Quote by Sameh Elsayed

#27. To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle #Quote by Yuu Watase

#28. Where you've been or haven't been does not make you who you are." -Faolan #Quote by Brittany L. Engels

#29. Look into yourself with your own eyes. Self realisation is an art of knowing yourself and making oneself better with each new realisation about self. #Quote by Suyasha Subedi

#30. The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it. #Quote by Mervyn Davies

#31. We are in fact living organisms that exist in a living universe #Quote by L.J. Vanier

#32. 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. #Quote by Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#33. It came to me in whole form… that the energy of the Universe swirled and coalesced and formed into suns and cooling planets orbiting those suns. And on the planets (one specifically that I know of) the energy started swirling and coalescing into electrons and forming molecules and those merged and joined and formed microscopic life, that in turn gave rise to aquatic things, and plants and animals and beings that walked on two legs that loved and had children that in turn loved. So that all the planet is connected by the energy of the Universe, and I am part of it. #Quote by Robin Rumi

#34. Fill your world with the vibrational sunshine from your soul & smile with the Universe! #Quote by Debbie A. Anderson

#35. To fix hearts one must know one's own. #Quote by Will Advise

#36. Often times it is difficult to rely on your judgment when the focus on your true objective is out of alignment. #Quote by Mark W. Boyer

#37. Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus-by spiritual strength-conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust. #Quote by Krishna Dharma

#38. As I awaken in the mornings I have visions... in the moment, the sun is either going to set or its going to rise... because if it should not do either.. the planet would not evolve. We are all apart of the Universe.. for if we do or we don't will have the same impact. #Quote by Jonathan Bailey

#39. It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness. #Quote by Sydney J. Harris

#40. We readily rebel against our knowledge than our ignorance. #Quote by Kangoma Kindembo

#41. My takeaway from all of Ophelia's sessions was that life favored value. The world was bursting with opportunity. If you didn't like who you were, it was time to reinvent yourself and try again. It was a disservice to the universe to cheat everyone of your talents. And if you were at your wit's end, thinking you had nothing to offer, it was essential to cultivate value within yourself in order to move forward. In order to live beyond existence. In order to turn your pain into something beautiful. #Quote by Fran Seen

#42. Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory. #Quote by Franz Grillparzer

#43. Connecting with yourself and knowing yourself is a monumental and life changing event. #Quote by Bryant McGill

#44. I trust the Universe Implicitly, therefore my experience is happening FOR me and not TO me. I trust the Universe. I trust the process. #Quote by Maria Flynn

#45. Self-denial means knowing only Christ, no longer knowing oneself. It means no longer seeing oneself, only him who is going ahead, no longer seeing the way which is too difficult for us. Self-denial says only: he is going ahead; hold fast to him. #Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#46. Have you ever read Bertrand Russell?" "No. Who is that?" "He was a mathematician. Anyway, he said, 'Those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.' I think that's especially true with knowing oneself. As soon as you grow certain of something, you've closed your mind to other possibilities. #Quote by Penny Reid

#47. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. #Quote by Albert Camus

#48. How you feel about home after holiday says a lot about home. #Quote by Joyce Rachelle

#49. Find comfort in questioning yourself. #Quote by Bryant McGill

#50. If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration. #Quote by Julia Woodman

#51. I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can't see what everyone else sees in me. I don't feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it's devastating, Jonas. I don't want you to think it's vanity, it isn't. I can't see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I'm like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want. #Quote by Christine Feehan

#52. Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center. #Quote by Richie Norton

#53. To know our own self is bliss. To see themselves clearly, a person must plunge themselves into the world they inhabit. We enhance our personal perspective by acquiring knowledge of the world. The more one knows about living through vivid personal encounters in the world that they occupy, the more that a person will come to understand him or herself. Self-knowledge requires an honest accounting of a person's experiences, frank admission of their furtive desires, and gracious acceptance of reality without surrendering their willingness to work to improve oneself and comfort other people. By attaching images to their real life experiences and secret dreams, a person learns rightly about the world. By writing about what adversities they experienced, a person can consciously go about integrating new ideas into their way of living. #Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

#54. A man who finds peace in the fume of his work is a man who knows himself and, therefore, knows what he must do. What is it that I would sacrifice myself to achieve? What is it that fills my lonely days and dowdy nights? What work consoles the soul? What action allows the brain to work at a fever, burn like an uncontrollable wildfire? What occupation, craft, or deed can I undertake that will embody a desire to share with other people my intellectual and emotional being? How does one express their worldly aspirations and spiritual yearnings? #Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

#55. Where you go when you travel is as important as where you are in your life when you do. #Quote by Joyce Rachelle

#56. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell. #Quote by Criss Jami

#57. To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away. #Quote by Veronique Vienne

#58. A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost. #Quote by Anthony Liccione

#59. 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 ... #Quote by Flannery O'Connor

#60. Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are! #Quote by Martin R. Lemieux

#61. Be patient with yourself; trust in the Universe; find mentors; know that you can achieve whatever you set out to do. #Quote by Diane L. Dunton

#62. It's him, I feel it. #Quote by Nikki Rowe

#63. In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we've lived with the longest, we still don't know very well - ourselves. #Quote by Charles F. Glassman

#64. It may sound paradoxical, but strength comes from vulnerability. You have to ask the question to get the answer, even though asking the question means you didn't know. #Quote by Majid Kazmi

#65. wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise #Quote by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#66. To know oneself, one should assert oneself. #Quote by Albert Camus

#67. [...]You can take the pink hair dye out of the girl, but you never lose those roots."

I took another sip of the martini. "You don't know me."

At the end of the bar, the other customer lifted his face to Peter Jennings and smiled.

"Maybe," Seven said, "but neither do you. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#68. To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself #Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#69. Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself. #Quote by Franz Grillparzer

#70. Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend. #Quote by Jonathan Bailey

#71. I'm everything that you're not. #Quote by Ahmed Mostafa

#72. Oh, how an animal that is hurt looks up at you, John! An animal's actions can inform you if it is in pain. It don't hop and jump around as usual. No. You find a sad, crouching, cringing, small bunch of fur or hair, whining, and plainly asking you to aid it. It isn't hard to find out what is wrong, John; any man or woman who would pass by such a sight, just isn't worth knowing. I just can't withstand it! Why, I think that not only animals, but plants can know pain. I carry a drink to many a poor, thirsty growing thing; or, if it is torn up I put it kindly back, and fix its soil up as comfortably as I can. Anything that is living, John, is worthy of Man's aid. #Quote by Ernest Vincent Wright

#73. She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. "Nothing like life, in other words," he said. "There, it's questions with either no answers or messy ones. #Quote by Khaled Hosseini

#74. My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good. #Quote by Louise Hay

#75. Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept. #Quote by Mary Pipher

#76. All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it. #Quote by Mencius

#77. My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it. #Quote by Hope Solo

#78. It's not fair. It's not fair, she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue. #Quote by Kristin Cashore

#79. They were women then
My mama's generation
Husky of voice stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
MUST know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves. #Quote by Alice Walker

#80. To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste. #Quote by Robert Silverberg

#81. The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving, knowing that the confinement of the hedge we're in is good and for His glory. Even though what we're enduring may be painful, it's good simply because God Himself has allowed it. #Quote by Charles R. Swindoll

#82. How was she to endure knowing he was in town these next two weeks, without throwing herself into his arms again? She would hide in her home and not come out until the day of the wedding. Yes, that was the only solution. #Quote by Maureen McKade

#83. A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence. #Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

#84. He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they'd find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips. #Quote by Julie James

#85. The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth. #Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

#86. To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life. #Quote by Leo Tolstoy

#87. I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist. #Quote by Ariel Garten

#88. Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you see. Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see. #Quote by Sigrid Nunez

#89. I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing are different things. #Quote by Mark Lawrence

#90. When one is young, he thought, one thinks that one will never know oneself. But the knowledge comes later; if not all, then some. An important amount. #Quote by Amanda Coplin

#91. It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be. #Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

#92. Writer or a musician, not knowing that it was possible #Quote by James McBride

#93. Knowing the truth brings happiness. #Quote by Sylvia Boorstein

#94. It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she could part with her, she could give her back to the world. #Quote by Dave Eggers

#95. I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free. #Quote by John Taylor Gatto

#96. Every morning, I have woken up knowing that I will never run out of books to read. That has been my life. #Quote by Kenzaburo Oe

#97. He can read your mind without even knowing."
Dee's face went from pale to bright cherry. "Oh God."
"What?"
She smacked her hands over her face. "Well, the whole time we were downstairs, I was picturing him naked. #Quote by Jennifer L. Armentrout

#98. He knew he was slipping. Blood was dripping down his arm, through his fingers. He'd faced death before, was no stranger to the sensation of knowing this breath, this one breath, could be the last you drew.
But he'd be damned if it would. Not when his woman was watching him with terrified eyes, calling to him, risking her life to save his. He set his teeth, gave his injured arm his weight. Pain swam sickly in his head, into his gut as he reached up to her.
And her hand gripped his, firm and strong. #Quote by J.D. Robb

#99. The more we speak of solitude, the clearer it becomes that at the bottom it is not something one can choose to take or leave. We are lonely. One can deceive oneself about it and act as if it were not so. That is all. But it is so much better to see that we are so, indeed even to presuppose it. It will make us dizzy, of course; because all the focal points on which our eyes were used to resting are taken away from us, there is nothing near us anymore, and everything distant is infinitely distant. #Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

#100. While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. #Quote by Mattie J.T. Stepanek

#101. All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead. #Quote by Coleman Dowell

#102. Without knowing anything else about him, i already know he'd be worth the hurt. #Quote by K. Bromberg

#103. Memories keep us stay alive as they gently cuddle us along the squirming roads of our lives and even warn us sometimes of insidious pitfalls. ("Knowing someone was waiting") #Quote by Erik Pevernagie

#104. It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it. #Quote by Francois Lelord

#105. And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa - she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody's? #Quote by Cassandra Clare

#106. Frequently, and not only in the popular usage, sadomasochism is confounded with
love. Masochistic phenomena, especially, are looked upon as expressions of love.
An attitude of complete self-denial for the sake of another person and the
surrender of one's own rights and claims to another person have been praised as
examples of "great love". It seems that there is no better proof for "love" than
sacrifice and the readiness to give oneself up for the sake of the beloved person.
Actually, in these cases, "love" is essentially a masochistic yearning and rooted in the symbiotic need of the person involved. #Quote by Erich Fromm

#107. 1. Accept everything just the way it is.
2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
3. Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
4. Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
5. Be detached from desire your whole life long.
6. Do not regret what you have done.
7. Never be jealous.
8. Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
9. Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
10. Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
11. In all things have no preferences.
12. Be indifferent to where you live.
13. Do not pursue the taste of good food.
14. Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
15. Do not act following customary beliefs.
16. Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
17. Do not fear death.
18. Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
19. Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
20. You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
21. Never stray from the Way. #Quote by Miyamoto Musashi

#108. In absence of consciousness, human beings would merely be animated material objects. Without the synergistic impact of consciousness, free will, and perception of a cohesive self, which act to direct human conduct, many of the qualities that we associate with our humanness would be moot or superfluous delusions including laughter and pain, memories and thoughts, love and anger, imagination and dreams. Without consciousness and free will, humankind would lack the ability to choose right from wrong and there could be no mental discipline directing each person's lifestyle, attitudes, and belief systems. #Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

#109. Never expect that your startup can cover every aspect of the market. The key is knowing what segment will respond to your unique offering. Who your product appeals to is just as important as the product itself. #Quote by Jay Samit

#110. Each minute, not knowing if Jacob was breathing or not, had seemed like ten lifetimes. #Quote by Stephenie Meyer

#111. we are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. #Quote by R.D. Laing

#112. In the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself. #Quote by Jacqueline Carey

#113. We hated not knowing something. We hated not knowing who was going to walk Spanish down the hall. How would our bills get paid? And where would we find new work? We knew the power of the credit card companies and the collection agencies and the consequences of bankruptcy. Those institutions were without appeal. They put your name into a system, and from that point forward, vital parts of the American dream were foreclosed upon. A backyard swimming pool. A long weekend in Vegas. A low-end BMW. These were not Jeffersonian ideals, perhaps, on par with life and liberty, but at this advanced stage, with the West won and the Cold War over, they, too, seemed among our inalienable rights. #Quote by Joshua Ferris

#114. Love is physical, it is a feeling both inside and out. Lust is visual, its is seeing something and wanting it. Though lust is a game for two it is just for oneself plesure. Then there is love.... Love is not a game #Quote by Caitlyn Lowry

#115. Knowing the man responsible for your success is in the mirror is a high that you can never buy #Quote by Desmond Ong

#116. Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we choose not to know just how messy it is. We know that meat comes from an animal, but we choose not to connect the dots. And often, we eat animals and choose not to know we're even making a choice. Violent ideologies are structured so that it is not only possible, but inevitable, that we are aware of an unpleasant truth on one level while being oblivious to it on another. Common to all violent ideologies is this phenomenon of knowing without knowing. #Quote by Melanie Joy

#117. To understand and to know someone better, you need is to love them first #Quote by Rocky13

#118. There is certainly no purpose in remaining in the dark
Except long enough to clear from the mind
The illusion of having ever been in the light. #Quote by T.S. Eliot

#119. Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary. #Quote by Stephen Daldry

#120. Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life. #Quote by Ann Marie Aguilar