William Drummond Quotes

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

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

The examined life is no picnic.

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

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.

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

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I've always been a very self-aware person.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

I don't analyse myself.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.