561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

Of course you don't know yourself, lucky old you. I just know myself too bloody well.

Our remembered experiences and our present day hopes and desires form the spine of each person’s storybook. Knowledge of life and death are traceable facts that shape the contours of each person’s storyboard. Other truths gleaned from living brilliantly fill the pages of each person’s ongoing anthology.

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

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person’s own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being.

If you know who you are, it reduces your fear of trials

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

When we own our beliefs, we have clear boundaries. We know what we believe and we know what others believe. There is no confusion. Our identity is strong to us and everyone else.

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.