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

~ Abraham J. Heschel

Abraham J. Heschel Self Self Knowledge

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

~ John Newlove

John Newlove Self Self Knowledge

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

~ Martin Luther

Martin Luther Self Self Knowledge

The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.

~ Robert Service

Robert Service Self Self Knowledge

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

~ Herman Melville

Herman Melville Self Self Knowledge

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Self Self Knowledge

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

~ William Hale White

William Hale White Self Self Knowledge

When three people call you an ass put on a bridle.

~ Spanish Proverb

Spanish Proverb Self Self Knowledge

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

~ Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson Self Self Knowledge

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Self Self Knowledge

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

~ Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg Self Self Knowledge

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

~ Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal Self Self Knowledge

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Self Self Knowledge

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

~ William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Self Self Knowledge

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

~ Alfred

Alfred Self Self Knowledge

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Self Self Knowledge

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

~ Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm Self Self Knowledge

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

~ Victoria

Victoria Self Self Knowledge

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

~ Rollo May

Rollo May Self Self Knowledge

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

~ Robert Burns

Robert Burns Self Self Knowledge

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith Self Self Knowledge

Self-command is the main elegance.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Self Knowledge

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Self Self Knowledge

I am better than my reputation.

~ Friedrich Von Schiller

Friedrich Von Schiller Self Self Knowledge

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

~ Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Self Self Knowledge

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

~ John Donne

John Donne Self Self Knowledge

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

~ Jewish Proverb

Jewish Proverb Self Self Knowledge

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

~ Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger Self Self Knowledge

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.

~ Minnie Smith

Minnie Smith Self Self Knowledge

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

~ Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson Self Self Knowledge

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

~ Paul Wunderlich

Paul Wunderlich Self Self Knowledge

Every man shall bear his own burden.

~ Bible

Bible Self Self Knowledge

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

~ Edith Evans

Edith Evans Self Self Knowledge

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

~ Goethe

Goethe Self Self Knowledge

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

~ Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker Self Self Knowledge

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen Self Self Knowledge

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

~ Robert Burns

Robert Burns Self Self Knowledge

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

~ Bernard Lonergan

Bernard Lonergan Self Self Knowledge

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Self Self Knowledge

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

~ E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings Self Self Knowledge
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