Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice on what would be good for them.

I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better.

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.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

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

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I understand exactly what I am.