Rakim Quotes

To know anything about oneself one must know all about 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.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

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

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

I don't know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

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

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

He who knows himself knows others.

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

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.