Quotes About Oneself

The only scholarship that has any merit, I suppose, is what is useful to other people as well as oneself. The most meritorious of all is what is useful to other scholars, sometimes for generations.

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself.

all which isn't singing is merely talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or disciple sheep or wolf)

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Apparently, jumping as a means of killing oneself is usually chosen for convenience, which is why places like San Francisco, with its Golden Gate Bridge (the world's top suicide destination), are so popular.

What is the use of being a writer of some note if one cannot treat oneself to such a luxury?

It was their creed that devils had no place on earth, that evil was not a living creature in the world. There was no one to blame other than oneself.

One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.

fear them?" "One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

I've sat across from many rulers of Great Houses, but never seen a more gross and dangerous pig than this one, Thufir Hawat told himself.

If I were in their place, I'd fall over myself.

I've never been in analysis. But it's rare that one saves oneself from a rickety landing at the top of a building by throwing oneself down the stairwell.

Better to withdraw own words or oneself from the discussion that leads to no solution than to drag oneself into an argument with the stupid people.

Mask wearing is not the first line of defence, but showing oneself to be the first grade of nonsense

For in one's heart one loveth only one's child and one's work; and where there is great love to oneself, then is it the sign of pregnancy: so have I found it.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on the threshold of eternal darkness, with oneself the only witness.