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You Know Yourself Quotes

...kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes.
- Cecelia Ahern

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
- Jodi Picoult

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
- Sun Tzu

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
- Sun Tzu

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
- Toni Collette

But you are a great sinner, that's true, he added almost solemnly, and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. Isn't that fearful? Isn't it fearful that you are living in this filth which you loathe so, and at the same time you know yourself (you've only to open your eyes) that you are not helping anyone by it, not saving anyone from anything?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.
- Joel Edgerton

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
- Peter Farrelly

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.
- Ashly Lorenzana

You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear you want to hit something.
- Sarah Monette

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