Eric Hoffer Quotes

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

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

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.