Claudia Gray Quotes

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

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

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

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

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

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

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

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.

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

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

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.

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.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

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

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.