Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Know thyself.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

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.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

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

I don't think anyone really knows me.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

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

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

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

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

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

Only the shallow know themselves.

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

I have a pretty good grip on who I am.

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.