#self-knowledge

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played that poorly, and neglected that which you might have filled with credit.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We need more psychology, we need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow.

But one must learn to know oneself in order to know who one is.

Know thyself and be temperate—these two injunctions are in truth one and the same.

To know oneself is to understand the boundaries of one's power and the depth of one's responsibility.

It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.

The supreme mastery of life is to recognize our own illusions before they crush us.

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

All fear vanishes when the true Self is known.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

One who knows their own nature harbors no bitter grudges toward others.

A blind person who sees their own fault is far wiser than a king who sees only his golden crowns.

Know thyself, and you will know the universe and the gods.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand.