Browsing Topic Best Self Knowing Quotes

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.

My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that – by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, ‘Do or do not. There is no try.’

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

If you don’t know yourself, you don’t know your nature. If you don’t know your nature, you don’t know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.