51 quotes
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
— Confucius
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
— Abraham Maslow
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
— Lao Tzu
“No one is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Publilius Syrus
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— 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.”
— Jacob M. Braude
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
— Aristotle
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.”
“To know what you know, and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“Know thyself.”
— Thales of Miletus
“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
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
— Nelson Mandela
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.”
— Laozi
“The faults of others we write upon sand, our own virtues we write in marble.”
— Thomas More
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
“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 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
“A person who does not know themselves cannot learn anything.”
— Sappho
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
— William Shakespeare
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakes”
“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
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“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
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Unknown
“Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.”
“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
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”
6 / 39 showing
