Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors.

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.

We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

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

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you gotta know the roots to really grow. It's like knowing your parents, it's like knowing your culture, so you could be proud of that culture and take it to the world.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

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

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!