Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

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

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

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

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

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.