561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.