Walter Lippmann Quotes

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

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

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

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.

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

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.

He who knows himself knows others.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

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

I observe myself and I come to know others.

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

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

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.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

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

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

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