Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.

To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

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.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.

Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle

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

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

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

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.

The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being. The difference is between being in a certain state and knowing oneself to be in a certain state.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.