Franz Grillparzer Quotes

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Know thyself.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

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

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

My personality doesn't interest me.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.