Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

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

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

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.

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.