Self Quotes

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

Gautama Buddha
- Reality
- Speak
- Self
Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

Boyd K. Packer
- Life
- Competition
- Self

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- World
- Man
- Self
You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.

Eli Siegel
- Fun
- Admit
- Manipulating
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

Diane Ackerman
- Conversation
- Birth
- Odd
The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

William Butler Yeats
- Spirit
- Blessed
- Common
If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
- Self
- Knowing
I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.

Chang-Rae Lee
- Self
- Wounded
- Psychics