Saint Augustine Quotes

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Half my life is an act of revision.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.