Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

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

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

My personality doesn't interest me.

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

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

I discovered myself!

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

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

We can’t be what we don’t know.

Know thyself.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

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

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.

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

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

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

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.