Abraham Maslow Quotes

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

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.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

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.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

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.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

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

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

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

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.