Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

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

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

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.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

He who knows himself knows others.

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

I discovered myself!

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I think I surprise myself.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.