Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

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

I think and that is all that I am.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

I question everything I do.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

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

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.