Craig Steven Wilder Quotes

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

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

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

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

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.