Sydney J. Harris Quotes

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

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

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

My personality doesn't interest me.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

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.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

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

I have faced up to what I am.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

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

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Know thyself.