Meg Rosoff Quotes

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

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

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

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

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.

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

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

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

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

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.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

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.

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.