Blaise Pascal Quotes

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

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

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

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

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

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

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.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

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.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

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

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.