"Because I know myself very well, it is difficult to say who I am."

-- Taiso Eka

"Only the shallow know themselves."

-- Oscar Wilde

"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery."

-- Matthew Arnold

"You bear God within you, poor wretch, and you know it not."

-- Epictetus

"I do not know my own nature; this is the source of all human ill."

-- Jacob Needleman

"It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself; but the most inconvenient one, too."

-- Henry W. Shaw

"He who knows himself knows God."

-- St. Clement

"The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it."

-- Gerard Groote

"It's the people who risk going too far who find out how far they can go."

--T.S. Eliot