To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.