“The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”

“Shame is a secret pride; and pride is an error with regard to one's own worth, and an injustice with regard to what one has a mind to appear to others.”

“Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one,
Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells
in heads replete with thoughts of other men,
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.”

“If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.”

“Knowledge of inner processes in body and mind is as helpful for one’s own preparation for death as it is for people who care for others who are dying. If one knows what to expect while dying, the conditions can be used and fears specifically removed.”

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”

“The test of the worth of a school is not the amount of knowledge it imparts, but the self-activity it calls forth.”

“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility…”

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.”