Gary Wolf Quotes

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

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.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

Awareness is empowering.

Everyone is on a journey to realize their best selves and their realest selves, and I think that's what creates that community.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

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 believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Learn what you are and be such.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Human improvement is from within outward.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.