561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

The generous spark extinct revive,Teach me to love and to forgive,Exact my own defects to scan,What others are, to feel, and to know myself a Man.- Hymn to Adversity

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.

You don't need the world to tell you who you are, your soul already knows.

To know one’s self requires a fierce and courageous willingness to explore the many layers of one’s inner landscape.

Don’t ”be yourself”, but work on yourself. Don’t ”be who you are”, but be who you ought. Don’t ”follow your dreams”, but face your realities. And don’t ”live your life”, but live a respectable life. Then you will find out that you cannot do everything, but at least you have to do something.