Self Knowledge Quotations

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new, it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.

I am silence among the secrets, and the Self-knowledge of the knowledgeable.

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.

I shall fully explain to you the Self-knowledge together with Self-realization after knowing that nothing more remains to be known in this world.

The key to a happy and fulfilling future is knowing yourself. This self-knowledge is the most important component of finding the right career,

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

I know everything except myself.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,