Sydney Smith Quotes

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

It takes time to know what makes an individual player tick.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things 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.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

I describe myself as a human being.

Figure out who you are.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

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.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.