Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

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

We read books to find out who we are.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

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

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.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand 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.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Know thyself.

I don't think anyone really knows me.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

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.

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

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.