The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I’d rather hide behind accents and funny walks. – Joel Edgerton
Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it’s getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in. – Jeff Bridges
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. ‘Know thyself’ is not a narcissistic pursuit. – Marianne Williamson
It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls. – Marilyn Monroe
You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one. – Lobsang Tenzin
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
Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better. – Leelee Sobieski
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. – Lee Iacocca
By the time you’re 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn’t go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university. – Kimberley Nixon
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. – Julien Green
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It’s so much easier to know who you are when there aren’t a thousand people telling you who they think you are. – Miley Cyrus
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be. – Marcus Samuelsson
I don’t think anybody should get married before they’re 30. You’re too young to really know yourself. – Jeremy London
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. – Muhammad Ali
I don’t know if there is a ‘lack’ of good black men. But when you haven’t taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can’t possibly find that person for you because you don’t even know what you’re looking for. – Keshia Knight Pulliam
I’ve always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you’re in your 40s and you’re kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore. – Lisa Edelstein
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. – Saint Augustine
Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you’re still trying to get to know yourself. – Rhianna Pratchett
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you… Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best. – Sholom Aleichem
Never be afraid of failure. And don’t stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best. – Suki Waterhouse
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself. – Steven Pinker
I’ve spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don’t dress to make other people think that I’m this way or that way. – Teddy Sears