155 quotes found
“Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society's for your best possible future.”
“I wonder if you know thy soul?”
“The quest for self-discovery is the desire to know thy soul.”
“Did your mom ever tell you, If you cant say something nice, dont say anything? She was rightand talking nicely also applies when youre talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
“You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.”
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”
“I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
“Indecision may or may not be my problem.”
“I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or b...”
“Self-awareness of ones faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.”
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
“I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.”
“Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and dige...”
“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...”
“Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know”
“If I ever leave this place-I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”
“All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.”
