Francis Quarles Quotes

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.

Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

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

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.