William Warburton Quotes

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Know thyself.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

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.

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

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

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.