Top Self Knowledge Quotes

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever I was, whatever I wasn’t—it’s all in what I am. Whatever I wanted, whatever I didn’t want—all of t...

Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

To succeed and reach your life goals, you must know who you are

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going t...

At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That wa...

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that...

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self era...

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around...

Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language or image. Artists and philosophers not only show us what w...

You find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically i...

[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if...