Pierre Charron Quotes

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Know thyself.

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.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.

Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

My personality doesn't interest me.

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

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'

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

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.