Ellen Hopkins Quotes

My personality doesn't interest me.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

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

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.