Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

There is a cleansing humility about doubt.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I discovered myself!

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

I don't find myself intriguing.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

There isn't really a whole lot to know about me.

I'm not one to probe my limitations.

I don't think anyone really knows me.