(50 quotes found)
“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Facing yourself can be intimidating, but that is only until it is liberating.”
Elizabeth Alraune
“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.”
Bryant H. McGill
“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”
Albert Camus
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
Contributed by: Anna Williams
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.”
Brenda Ueland
“People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.”
Orlando Bloom
“If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?”
Blaise Pascal
