Self-knowledge quotes
468 self-knowledge quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Street Kings
“This thing you want that you think you want, you don't want.”
“- C. S. Divot: Who do you think you are?
- Hrundi V. Bakshi: In India, we don't think who we are. We know who we are.”- From the movie: Juggernaut
- From the movie: Troy
“- Briseis: Why did you choose this life?
- Achilles: What life?
- Briseis: To be a great warrior.
- Achilles: I chose nothing. I was born and this is what I am.” - From the movie: Freaked
“Now I know who I am. I can say to the world, 'Hey, this is me. I am woman, and I like me'.”
- From the movie: Kissing Jessica Stein
“- Helen Cooper: You can't possible know who you are or how you'll respond to something until you try it.
- Jessica Stein: I happen to disagree. I happen to think that if you know yourself well, you can gauge how you're gonna react to something. And I pretty much assure you that I will never be made happy by chanting for spiritual enlightenment.” - From the movie: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“If we don't understand ourselves, how can we ever expect to understand anybody else?”
- From the movie: Gone Baby Gone
“I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished.”
- From the movie: Platoon
- From the movie: Paranoia
“- Jock Goddard: It will know where you've been, who you've been with. It will track your priorities, expenditures, your health, calendar. It will know who you are. And it's all ours.
- Adam Cassidy: You think people really want all that personal information under one roof?
- Jock Goddard: It's not the roof that matters, Adam, it's the warm fuzzy...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Core
“For here, in the great unknowable, man can come to know the most important thing of all - himself. He can understand.”
- From the movie: Mumford
“I may be young but, Doc, I can tell you that I'm very immature.”
- From the movie: Serenity
“I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar.”
- From the movie: Setup
“When I was younger I wanted to be a priest. I was going into the battle to save men's souls from the evil of the world. But as I got older, I saw the world for what it really was. It wasn't so much who I was going to save, but what was going to save the world from me.”
- From the movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
“USS Enterprise Captain's Personal Log: With most of our battle damage repaired we're almost home. Yet I feel uneasy and I wonder why? Perhaps it is the emptiness of this vessel. Most of our training crew have been reassigned. Lt. Saavik and my son David are exploring the Genesis planet which he helped create and Enterprise feels like a house...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: West Side Story
“- Lieutenant Schrank: Do you mind?
- Doc: I have no mind. I am the village idiot.” - From the movie: Spy Hard
- From the movie: True Crime
“When my nose tells me something stinks, I gotta have faith in it.”
- From the movie: She
- From the movie: Death of a Salesman
I run out of that building and I see... the sky. I see all the things I love in this world. The work, the food, the time to sit and smoke. And I look at this pen and I ask myself, "What the hell am I grabbing this thing for? Why am I trying to become something I don't wanna become when all I want is out there waiting for me the minute I say I... (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Small Time Crooks
“- Ray: I'm no genius, believe me, I'm no genius.
- Frenchy: Yeah, you don't have to sell me.” - From the movie: Rango
“Who am I? I'm nobody.”
- From the movie: Girlfight
“- Hector: Inside, you know yourself?
- Diana Guzman: Yeah. I do.
- Hector: Then that's all you need.” - From the movie: The Jungle Book 2
“I never knew where I came from. But I always knew where I belonged.”
- From the movie: Due Date
“- Peter Highman: I despise who you are on a cellular level.
- Ethan Tremblay: Okay, I've heard that before and I'm trying to work on it.”
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