Joseph Hall Quotes

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

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

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Figure out who you are.

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

Madame Bovary is myself.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

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

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

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

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.