Kofi Annan Quotes

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

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

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

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

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

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

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

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?

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.