Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Not if I know myself at all.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

I'm nobody, who are you?

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.

I see myself as a professional feeler.

I always have a hard time describing myself.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.