Know Thyself

• "It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around." — Henry David Thoreau
• "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." — Oscar Wilde
• "Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced." — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• "What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves." — George Santayana
• "Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so." — Duc François La Rochefoucauld
• "Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well." — Duc François La Rochefoucauld
• "The humble knowledge of thyself is surer way to God than the deepest search after science." — Thomas à Kempis
• "To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself." — Duc François La Rochefoucauld
• " 'Know thyself' ? If I knew myself, I'd run away." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe