“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”

— Margaret Mitchell , book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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Margaret Mitchell 98

American author and journalist 1900–1949

Marion Zimmer Bradley book The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon (1983)

“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”

Guillermo del Toro (1964) Mexican film director

“To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.