Haruki Murakami Quotes

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

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

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

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

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Know thyself.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

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.

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

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

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

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.