No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"Notes from the Underground"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
