Socrates Quotes

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

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.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

One of my problems is to find the self.