Jane Gardam Quotes

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

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

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

You know more than you think you do.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

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

Everyone has the answers.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

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 once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

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.

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.