Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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.

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

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

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.

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

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

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