Douglas Adams Quotes

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

I always like to think that I'm accountable for everything I do, but I'll never understand how I did some of the things that I did.

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

You have, which is a rare thing, the ability and the responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself. To at least give it the floor. Because it is the key, not only to consciousness, but to real growth.

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.