Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

He who knows himself knows others.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

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

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Only the shallow know themselves.

We can’t be what we don’t know.

Know thyself.

To me, acting used to be just, 'Get my face out there, get girls, make a little bit of money, make my mom proud.' It was just like sports. But there were moments in 'Moonlight' that I really felt like I had to know why he is the way he is. Or just people in general - why this person walks around with a frown on their face instead of a smile.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.