Leo Buscaglia Quotes

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

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

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

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.