Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Everyone has the answers.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

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

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

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

He who knows himself knows others.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment