Menander Quotes

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

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

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

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

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

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.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

He who knows himself knows others.

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

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

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.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

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

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

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