Sam Keen Quotes

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Tell me who I am. (29)

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

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

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and how much completely baffles me about the world and human behavior.

"What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. I looked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth. "I'm trying to figure out what you are."

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.