51 quotes
“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakes”
— Carl Jung
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
— Confucius
“Know thyself.”
— Thales of Miletus
“We are the local embodiment of a cosmos grown to self-awareness and we have begun to contemplate our origins with wonder”
— Michio Kaku
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.”
“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
— Abraham Maslow
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
— Lao Tzu
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
— William Shakespeare
“A person who does not know themselves cannot learn anything.”
— Sappho
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.”
— Laozi
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
“To know what you know, and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.”
— Daphne Rose Kingma
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
— Unknown
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Jacob M. Braude
“No one is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Publilius Syrus
“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“People look for retreats for themselves in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. But nowhere can a person retreat more peacefully than into their own soul.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“The faults of others we write upon sand, our own virtues we write in marble.”
— Thomas More
“Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.”
“Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride.”
— Petrarch
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
— Aristotle
“We do not what we ought, what we ought not we do, and lean upon the thought that chance will bring us through.”
— Matthew Arnold
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