Josh Billings Quotes

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

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

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

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Really, when you take a step back and you really know yourself, you're able to make better decisions.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

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

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

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I know what I don't want.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.