Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

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

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

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.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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

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

Know thyself.

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.

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

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

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

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

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

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.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.