Learning About Yourself Quotes:

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

- James Thurber

source: James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Running, Humor, Learning, Discovering Yourself, Learning About Yourself

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Time To Move On

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Relationship, Struggle, Winning, Spiritual Partnership, Learning About Yourself

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

- Hugh Prather

source: Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

topic: Change, Life Changing, Live Life, Just Living Life, Learning About Yourself

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Teacher, Know Yourself, Masters, Learning About Yourself, Saviour

The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

- Octavia Spencer

topic: Moving, Journey, Men, Learning About Yourself

A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.

- Stephen Elliott

source: Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.158, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Reflection, Light, Years, Learning About Yourself

You're always learning about yourself, if you're honest with yourself. It's very tough to be honest with yourself. We all are dishonest with ourselves, a lot of the time. We don't want to deal with something, so we compartmentalize it.

- Geoff Johns

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Want, Tough, Honest, Learning About Yourself, Always Learning

Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Moving, Taken, Learning, Learning About Yourself

The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.

- Henry Louis Gates

source: "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

topic: Fun, Self Esteem, Talking, Learning About Yourself