Quotes on Self Knowing

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.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

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.

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.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Know thy self, know thy enemy.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

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.

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.

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.