Do you know any quotes about never really knowing yourself or other people?

Question

Do you know any quotes about never really knowing yourself or other people?

Answer 1

One who knows others is "wise".

One who knows himself is "enlighten".

"How many cares one loses, when they decide not to become something but become someone."  Coco Chanel

Answer 2

What! You don't know who you are! So-o depressing!

Answer 3

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye - miss piggy

Answer 4

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

Answer 5

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself." Harvey S. Firestone

"Whenever your find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself." - Thales

Hope these help!

Answer 6

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" Listening to the heart is not simple.  Finding out who you are is not simple.  It takes allot of hard work (challenging work) to get to know who you are and what you want. "  ~ S. Bender ~

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" I don't need man to rectify my existence.  The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves. " ~ Shirley MacLaine ~

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" Experience is what we get when we don't get what we want ".

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"I think that one's art is a growth inside one.  I do not think one can explain growth.  It is silent and subtle.  One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows." ~ Emily Carr

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Answer 7

"It's only when I lose myself with someone else that I find myself"

Answer 8

“You never know yourself till you know more than your body.” - Thomas Traherne

“How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.” - Michael Korda

“How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?” - Tyler Durden

Answer 9

To thine own self be true. Wm. Shakespeare

Scratch a lover, find a foe. Dorothy Parker

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.              Anaïs Nin

There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very shadowy places. You're going to learn things about yourself that you'll wish you didn't know. There are monsters in there—monsters you can't control—but trying to keep them hidden will only give them greater power.                Parker Palmer

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.     Quentin Crisp

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.”      Mary Tyler Moore

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.”     Sydney J. Harris

A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway." -- Christi Mary Warner

"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." -- Frances Ward Weller