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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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

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

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

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

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

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.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

One of my problems is to find the self.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I think I surprise myself.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

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.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

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

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

I try to spend as little time thinking about myself as possible. I find that's not a constructive way to live.