M. Scott Peck Quotes

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

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

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Tell me who I am. (29)

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

Self-analysis always cheats.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.