“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”
Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic
“For what else are you busied with except improving yourself every day, laying aside some error, and coming to understand that the faults which you attribute to circumstances are in yourself?”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter L: On Our Blindness and Its Cure
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Seneca the Younger225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum.
grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora.
Book I, epistle iv, line 13–14
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“… you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.”
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
Interview with Judy McGuire for Punk Magazine in 2001. McGuire, Judy, Joe Strummer Interview, 2001, Punk Magazine http://www.punkmagazine.com/stuff/morestuff/joe_strummer.html,
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
“When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
4th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (28 May 1967)
1960s
