Jostein Gaarder Quotes

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

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

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

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.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

You know, most people really don't know me.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

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

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.

You cannot analyse your personality. It is like trying to understand the essential characteristics of a person.

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

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

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

People seem to know more about me than I do.