Quotes about Self-knowledge
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared what lies within us.
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
I had always been able to gaze in the mirror and see whatever I wanted to see. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
There`s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Learn to [...] be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.