There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
~ Pearl Bailey

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
~ George S. Arundale

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.
~ Bernard M. Baruch

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.
~ Walter Benjamin

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
~ Josh Billings

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
~ Catherine Drinker Bowen

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
~ Francis H. Bradley

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
~ Claude M. Bristol

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
~ Claude M. Bristol

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
~ Pearl S. Buck

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
~ Albert Camus

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
~ Elias Canetti

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.
~ Bruce Catton

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
~ Pierre Charron

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
~ Meister Eckhart

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
~ George Eliot

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
~ David Harold Fink

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe