Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex

I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers. I think it's no accident that I ended up studying the geography of India and knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers and all of that. I loved it. I think it gives a sense of space and a can-do-ness that was very powerful.

One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

I believe in just doing it and not looking for excuses because who really cares in the end? No one but oneself.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

I am really, truly a hopeless romantic, myself, and I am also obsessed with past lives, knowing someone from a past life and knowing that right away, when you meet them. I really believe in inexplicable connections with people, and the way your subconscious enters your dreams. Those are themes in life that I'm really fascinated in.

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.

Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

One should be alert and know how to defend oneself in case something untoward happens.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.