Quotes About Self-knowledge

Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are, not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

I've not yet succeeded in obeying the Delphic injunction to know myself, and it seems to me absurd to consider problems about other beings while I am still in ignorance about my own nature.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Leszek Kołakowski

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

Dogen

One must die to know the truth.

D'Anna

This is how a human being can change: there's a worm addicted to eating grape leaves. Suddenly he wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he's no longer a worm. He's the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy that doesn't need to devour.