Quotes on Discovery In Life

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

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.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.