Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Self-awareness is a trait - or maybe 'practice' is the more accurate way to put it - that everyone can always improve at. It is part emotional intelligence, part perceptiveness, part critical thinking. It means knowing your weaknesses, of course, but it also means knowing your strengths and what motivates you.

The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

The final mystery is oneself.

One eventually has enough even of oneself.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally you may make an exception. But, you do so knowing you're attempting to do it for a certain reason and you have to be very careful not to try to make too many exceptions, because then you wind up as a franchise with a team full of exceptions, which is not what you want.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.

Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home...” Gordian Pierce

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something that you have to do constantly when you're in trial. I always went to trial knowing what they were doing. So I was always in both mindsets anyway. 'Oh, they're going to do this, then I'm going to do that.'

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Be a light unto oneself

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting go of my album, for instance, was a really big challenge. Knowing when to put the red flags up and say, "It's done..." And also, emotionally, with relationships.

I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.

You're not born knowing how to do math. You're taught that. You're not born knowing how to hate someone. You're taught that. And so I feel I want to use my platform to raise awareness about it. To help raise something positive. In America, you look around and a lot of things that happen - it all stems from that.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

The greatest victory is the one over oneself.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

To live is to express oneself freely

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

Belief in oneself is required for healing.

In the end one only experiences oneself.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

Friendship with oneself is all important.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

The will to be oneself is heroism

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

One can run away from anything but oneself.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted to become very strong myself when I first began. But Karate training soon teaches that real strength is facing oneself strictly, with severe eyes. This is the first condition of martial arts training. Therefore, all karateka must be strong inwardly, but quite gentle to others. As we train together, each contributing to a good atmosphere, let's try to bring out that serious strong mentality from deep inside.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Sometimes one barely understand oneself.

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

One is oneself a fine consequence.

As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.