Thales Quotes

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Really, when you take a step back and you really know yourself, you're able to make better decisions.

The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

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

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

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

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.