Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

My No. 1 piece of advice, especially for someone who's an actor-singer-dancer - a triple threat, they're called! - people say, 'What's the most important?' I always say acting. Without knowing why you're singing or what you're singing about, it's just noise. And without knowing why you're moving your body, it's just flailing of arms.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

I feel, it is essential to see oneself on-screen so as to be a better judge of one's performance.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.

Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something to protect the American people And you effectively allow 9/11 to occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of duty. That's subject in the military to prosecution, to court martial. Frankly, if not treason.

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.

Just as important as knowing what gift God has given you is knowing which gifts He hasn't give you. Many Christians try for years to function with gifts they never had in the first place, and this doesn't do the Lord's work much good. It's like trying to hear something with your knee or throw a ball with your nose. Knees and noses are better off doing other things.

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

You are the epitome of the word selfless, you did something knowing you wouldn't be able to come home, knowing that your country would have very mixed feelings and yet your integrity on what you believe was right or wrong or should be public knowledge was more important to you than almost your own comfortability and the life that you had lived for so long. So I would like say thank you to him.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.