Rza Quotes

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

One of my problems is to find the self.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

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

You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.