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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

» Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

» Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist

Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.

» Anonymous (-)

I know myself, but that is all.

» Anonymous (-)

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

» Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, print-publisher and philosopher

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with

» Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) American financier, and political consultant

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

» Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

» Henry A. Kissinger (1923-?) German Politician

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

» Hillary Clinton (1947-?) American Politician

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

» Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) French poet

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

» Anonymous (-)

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

» Anonymous (-)

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

» Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author [well known for his eccentrities]

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

» Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

» Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss theologian and poet

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