John Ruskin Quotes

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

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.

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

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

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.