Ella Purnell Quotes

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

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.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

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.

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.

One of my problems is to find the self.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

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

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

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.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

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

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

Everyone is on a journey to realize their best selves and their realest selves, and I think that's what creates that community.

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

Anybody can act. Correction. Anybody can act if they know their own weaknesses.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.