6 Quotes Tagged: knowing-oneself

"The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not "I know who I am", but rather "I know who I'm not". Process of elimination... Knowing who we are is hard. Eliminate who we're not first, and we'll find ourselves where we need to be."

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.

"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are."

One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one's life, and nothing is more proper.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it's not me.

Let’s make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves. And yet it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are.