561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.

What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

To know a boy, ask his mother. To know a man, ask his wife.

You don’t need to seek what you are.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.