Knowing Oneself

Is it true that

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself. Franz Grillparzer

Even with limited intelligence,

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory. Franz Grillparzer

To know oneself is

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[To] know oneself is,

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . . Flannery O’Connor

There’s this idea that

There’s this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it’s very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as … Read more

I always thought I

I always thought I was Jeanne d’Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. Charles de Gaulle

Is a little experience

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself? Carl Van Vechten

One is always in

One is always in the dark about one’s own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. Carl Jung

One must know oneself.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Blaise Pascal

Knowing yourself is the

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle