561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.