Deepak Chopra Quotes

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.

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?

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

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.

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

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

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

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

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.

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.

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.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

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.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

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

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I want people to find their inner depth.

If something evokes a strong emotional reaction in me, I need to push myself in that direction.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

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