Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

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

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Only the shallow know themselves.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

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

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

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

You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

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