• 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

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.9 · 35 votes · 58 reads

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• I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 98 reads

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• Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. - Buck, Pearl S.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  3.2 · 26 votes · 130 reads

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• 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

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.4 · 17 votes · 78 reads

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• It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. - Billings, Josh

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 33 reads

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• Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.0 · 51 votes · 158 reads

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• Know thyself.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 198 reads

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

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 42 votes · 66 reads

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• 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

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.8 · 12 votes · 151 reads

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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 52 votes · 45 reads

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• Our lives teach us who we are.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 26 reads

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• Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 141 reads

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• Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 136 reads

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

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 113 reads

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• 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.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 161 reads

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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

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.7 · 18 votes · 6 reads

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

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.5 · 32 votes · 181 reads

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

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.7 · 32 votes · 112 reads

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• You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 177 reads

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