Quotes About Self-discovery

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

He has to come to it on his own.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

Know yourself in order to be better not to criticize and judge yourself

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.