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