Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

One must keep challenging oneself to do well in any profession.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

I am one of the few singers who has reinvented oneself with every song.

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the shots are going to be, but knowing enough about my character that I can forget those things. And more specifically, my lines. I have to know my lines. I have to know something really well, so I can forget it when we're doing it. And there is comfort in knowing, "Okay, there's not another stone that I could have overturned."

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Of course, as a model and actor, one has to look good and maintain oneself.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.