John Knowles Quotes

I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

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

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

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

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.