Blaise Pascal Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Know thyself.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

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

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

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

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.

Everyone should know yourself. It can be an insult, but know yourself is just it. It's exactly what it sounds like.

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