Know Thyself ...
Inspirational Quotes
Socrates started a trend over two millennia ago ... and his words still echo down to us today with wisdom and courage. If you plan on taking a journey to discover who you are ... here are some inspiring quotes to help you along the way.
P. S.You might also be interested in this step by step guide on How To Know Thyself.
K.Now Thyself
Man, know thyself.
- Socrates
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
- Lao Tzu
You're the only kind of knowledge
They don't teach at any college
You're an education in yourself ...- Harry Warren, Al Dubin (You're An Education)
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
- Menander
Man know thyself: then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
What will my future be, I wonder?
- The Sound of Music (movie)
Critical Tasks
What you allow yourself to be reflects what you have told yourself you are.
- unknown
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
The aim of life is self-development, to realize one's nature perfectly.
... the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living ...
- Socrates
The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination .... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.
Whoever would know himself, let him open a book.
Challenges
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Death comes as a heavy blow when, known too well to others, you die unknown to yourself.
- Francis Bacon
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
- Benjamin Franklin
