“The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.”
Sri Aurobindo
Self-Discovery Quotes
45 FAMOUS QUOTES · SELF-DISCOVERY
Self-Discovery Quotes
Read 45 famous self-discovery quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
Galileo Galilei
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
T. S. Eliot
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”Carl Jung
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Søren Kierkegaard
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
Jane Austen
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Thomas Merton
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Jackson Pollock
“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”
Thomas Browne
“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Saint Augustine
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
“Solitude is the way by which destiny endeavours to lead man to himself.”
Hermann Hesse
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
John Muir
“In solitude we discover that being is more important than having.”
Henri Nouwen
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
Alan Watts
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
Joseph Campbell
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
Lewis Carroll
“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”Helen Keller
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
Hermann Hesse