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