People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I already am a product.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.