Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that is their deal: to lie ahead of time. There is zero news value in that.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

You meet a lot of people [in Dubai] coming from a lot of different places. Even me, I'm always in transit. I don't stay anywhere too long. I like the energy that I found when I came here the first time. I start knowing people, and people start knowing me as well.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each of a great many holdings. One's very best idea's are likely to generate higher returns for a given level of risk than one's hundredth or thousandth best idea.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Success is a an attitude and state of mind where I feel the exhilaration of knowing that I made a difference for many, did this doing what I love, and maing alot of money in the process so I get to experience many things in this extraordinary world. The most important part of success is a deep knowing that I made a difference for others.

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.

I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, "Attitude is everything, so pick a good one." You need a very strong internal knowing. For instance, when I sat down to write the book The Power of Intention, I had a very strong internal knowing that I call thinking from the end.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.