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Quotes on knowing who you are |
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"Knowledge is knowing as little as possible." -- Charles Bokowski "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." -- Bronson Alcott "The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge." -- Daniel J. Bornstein "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" -- M. Froehill "What you learn after you know it all, is what counts." -- Groya's Law "Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty." -- Utvich's Observation "To have doubted your first principles is the mark of a civilized man." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." -- Nietzsche "Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit." -- Helmut Walters "Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards." --Nietzsche "Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, 'I can do no other.'" -- Heywood Brown "The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes." -- Nietzsche "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you always do what you've done, you'll always get what you've always got." -- Unknown "Reality is a hypothesis." -- Blomgren's Law "The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see." -- Huang Po "A great deal of what you see depends on what you're looking for." -- Unknown "We see things not as they are, but as we are." -- The Talmud "If your questions all have answers, you are asking the wrong questions." -- J. Mallory "What is the use of running when you are not on the right road?" -- German proverb "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." -- Loa Tze "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." -- Saul Bellow "When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary men." -- The Buddha "Beware, gentle knight -- the greatest monster of them all is reason." -- Cervantes "The map is not the territory." -- Alfred Korzbybski "My studies in speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese." -- Benjamin De Casseres "In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a butterfly. But with humans it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar." -- Anton Chekhov "We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs." -- Eric Berne "The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real." --Joyce Cary "We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because it is more comfortable." -- A. Solhenitsyn "Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!" -- Taisen Deshimaru "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." -- Edgar Allan Poe "Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." -- Aesop "A young girl who became pregnant out of wedlock falsely identified Master Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) as the father. When the girl's parents confronted him, Hakuin said only, 'Is that so?' When the child was born Hakuin cared for it as lovingly as if it was his own until the girl finally admitted that she had lied. When the girl's parents apologized and begged his forgiveness, Hakuin said, 'Is that so?'" "There is no way you can use the word 'reality' without quotation marks around it." -- Joseph Campbell "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." -- Santayana "To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops." -- Erich Fromm "All is to be doubted." -- Descartes "Know Thyself." "Nothing to Excess." Two phrases carved on Temple of Apollo at Delphi "You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules." -- Joseph Campbell "The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down." -- Joseph Campbell "The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention." -- Joseph Campbell "Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself . . . The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises . . .[I]f you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing . . . The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply." -- Joseph Campbell "No man should be angry with what is true." -- Plato "No snowflake falls in an inappropriate place." -- Zen proverb "If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. -- Taisen Deshimaru "Flow with whatever may happen to and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. That is the ultimate." -- Chuang Tzu "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -- Charles Beard "You must go through the smoke to get to the fire." -- Wudabhi proverb (Africa) "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who have found it." --Andre Gide "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." -- John Berry "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -- Hayden's Homily #6 "Peace immediately follows surrender." -- Bagavad-gita XII, 12 "Icebergs" retold by Maria Leach Once there was a man who had snow scenes and icebergs painted on his bedroom wall during a hot spell. The water froze in the water pitcher the first night, and he had to build a fire the second night and write off to Sears, Roebuck for five blankets. Butting: You who play at butting with a ram; / You will soon see a broken head. (Saadi of Shiraz) The Straight Path: I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.. (Saadi of Shiraz) The Alternatives: The sanctuary is in front of you and the thief is behind you. If you go on, you will win; if you sleep, you die. (Saadi of Shiraz) I’m nobody, who are you? — Emily Dickinson |
