Menander Quotes

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

I know what I can do and what I can't.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Know thyself.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

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?

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.