Eliza Haywood Quotes

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.

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.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

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

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

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

We can’t be what we don’t know.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

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

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

Every year you learn as a person, about yourself, what works for you and what doesn't.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

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

To grow yourself, you must know yourself.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.