Jason Kander Quotes

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

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

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.