Dick Cavett Quotes

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

I know who I am and what I do.

I have no doubt who I am.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

I don't know what's best for other people.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

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

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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

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

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

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.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)