Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

Apparently, blaming oneself for debilitating student debt is common.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.

It's a very, very exciting time, but you can't help thinking or not quite knowing how it's seen from the outside. You're constantly in a state of terror or regret, not quite knowing how things are going to pan out, or whether you've made the right decisions. But, maybe that's just what it's like. Maybe that's just the life of it.

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between knowing and not knowing. I know that sounds like a meditation teacher speaking, but when you're in the laboratory, or you're theorizing about physics, you need to know what you know, but if you can't get out from under that, you won't be able to make that insightful, first-time connection that nobody else has seen before.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.