Jean Paul Quotes

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

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

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

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

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

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?

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

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.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

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

Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.