Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

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

Know thyself.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

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?

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

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.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

To grow yourself, you must know yourself.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

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.

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.