I don't.Don't what? She asked, somewhat puzzled.I don't know many things. The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

~ Grace Fiorre

Grace Fiorre Everything Knowledge Nothing Wisdom

His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.

~ Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Knowledge Skill Talents Uniqueness

There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

~ Mongkut

Mongkut Knowledge

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Self Self Knowledge

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.

~ Lord Halifax

Lord Halifax Self Self Knowledge

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Self Self Knowledge

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry Self Self Knowledge

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

~ George Higgins

George Higgins Self Self Knowledge

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

~ Phaedrus

Phaedrus Self Self Knowledge

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

~ G. C. Lichtenberg

G. C. Lichtenberg Self Self Knowledge

If you can't bite don't show your teeth.

~ Old Saying

Old Saying Self Self Knowledge

Know him know me.

~ Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Self Self Knowledge

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley Self Self Knowledge

No man does anything from a single motive.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Self Self Knowledge

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.

~ W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Self Self Knowledge

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

~ Sir Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne Self Self Knowledge

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

~ Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Self Self Knowledge

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

~ John Ruskin

John Ruskin Self Self Knowledge

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke Self Self Knowledge

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

~ George Santayana

George Santayana Self Self Knowledge

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

~ Mason Cooley

Mason Cooley Self Self Knowledge

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Michel De Montaigne Self Self Knowledge

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

~ Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly Self Self Knowledge

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

~ G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Self Self Knowledge

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

~ Dwight Morrow

Dwight Morrow Self Self Knowledge

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

~ Hindu Proverb

Hindu Proverb Self Self Knowledge

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

~ Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson Self Self Knowledge

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Self Self Knowledge

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

~ Charlotte Cushman

Charlotte Cushman Self Self Knowledge

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

~ Frank J. Giblin

Frank J. Giblin Self Self Knowledge

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

~ Graham Sutherland

Graham Sutherland Self Self Knowledge

I am I plus my circumstances.

~ Josi Ortega Y Gasset

Josi Ortega Y Gasset Self Self Knowledge

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Self Self Knowledge

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

~ George Eliot

George Eliot Self Self Knowledge

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

~ Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Self Self Knowledge

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

~ Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe Self Self Knowledge

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

~ Anonymous

Anonymous Self Self Knowledge

If I am not for myself who will be?

~ Pirke Avot

Pirke Avot Self Self Knowledge

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

~ Ben Sweet

Ben Sweet Self Self Knowledge

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Theodore Isaac Rubin Self Self Knowledge
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