Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

One has to move from one's comfort zone to challenge oneself.

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it.

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

I believe one shouldn't shut oneself to any possibilities.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.