George Santayana Quotes

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

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.

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

My personality doesn't interest me.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Figure out who you are.

I discovered myself!

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

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.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

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

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

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

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.