Quotes on Knowing Oneself

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

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.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.