Self-knowledge quotes

“I tried to improve on the limits in myself. Myself, not him. Can you understand? To improve on nature, my nature, knowledge of one's self. It's the only path to the truth that give men the power to go beyond God's boundaries.”
Nick Nolte - Father

“Who are you? Do you see you the way you want to be seen? Then you must see character in yourself, discipline in yourself, determination in yourself - to survive - with dignity, no matter how tough the world around you is. Is that who you are? If not, is that who you want to be?”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Mark Thackeray

“Everything I am is an illusion.”
Matt Dillon - David Walsh

“What makes a man who he is? Is it the worst things he's ever done, or the best things he wants to be? When you find yourself in the middle of your life and you're nowhere near of where you were going, how do you find the way from the person you've become to the one you know you could have been?”
Dakota Fanning - Allie Keys

“Who am I? That's the real question, isn't it? Who-who am I? Who are you! What other questions are there? What other questions are there, really! You want to understand the universe? Embrace the universe. The door to the universe is you.”
Tom Hanks - Joe

“There's something you should know about me. I'm very choosy. I'm also very suspicious; very irrational, and I have a very short temper. I'm also extremely jealous and slow to forgive. Just so you know.”

Marion Cotillard - Fanny Chenal

“Come on guys, it's not that hard. Most people die without discovering their own genius, without expressing the uniqueness that makes them special.”
John Livingston - Mr. Parks

“I may not be the most pleasant person to be around, but I got the best woman who was ever on this planet to marry me. I worked at it, it was the best thing ever happened to me.”

Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalsky

“- Freud: And so, Ted's father's own fear of failure has caused him to make his son the embodiment of all his deepest anxieties about himself. And hence, his aggression transference onto Ted.
- Ted: Whoa...
- Freud: Okay, Ted?
- Ted: Yes... Thank you very much, Sigmund Freud...
- Freud: Bill?
- Bill: Nah. Just got a minor oedipal complex.”
Rod Loomis - Freud
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan

“You are a crook. I want you as a crook. I love you as a crook. I worship you as a crook. Steal, swindle, rob. Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos.”

Miriam Hopkins - Lily

“- Charlotte: I just don't know what I'm supposed to be.
- Bob Harris: You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
Scarlett Johansson - Charlotte
Bill Murray - Bob Harris

“Were you with the German anti-fascists fighting us in Spain? No! Did you stop the Einsatzkommando at Poznan? No! You have the debilitating German disease, Woermann - Sentimental talk! It allows you to feel sensitive, superior, and yet stay safe because you take no action. Your sentimental suffering makes me sick!”
Gabriel Byrne - Kaempffer

“You think those people are bad? Well, let me tell you something. The real monster you don't want knocking down your door is me.”
Milla Jovovich - Violet Song Jat Shariff

“It's never too late to do the right thing. That's what I'll do, I'll go over there and do the right thing.”
Mel Gibson - Nick Marshall

“The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness.”
Susan Sarandon - Annie Savoy

- Girl in "Chock Full O'Nuts": You're a cop!
- Snake Plissken: I'm an asshole.
Season Hubley - Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken

“- Roy O'Bannon: I'm so lost, Chon. Ninety percent of the time I don't even know what I'm doing out here in the West.
- Chon Wang: No, you're a good outlaw.
- Roy O'Bannon: Stop, please. I'm a screw-up.”
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang

“- Mrs. Potter: What in the world is the matter with you?
- Hammer: Oh, I... I'm not myself tonight. I don't know how I am. One false move and I'm yours. I love you. I love you anyhow.”
Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Potter
Groucho Marx - Hammer

“I am not an animal.”
Matthew Causey - Pondo

“- Holly Golightly: I'll tell you one thing, Fred, darling... I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?
- Paul Varjak: In a minute.
- Holly Golightly: I guess it's pretty lucky neither of us is rich, huh?
- Paul Varjak: Yeah.”
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly
George Peppard - Paul Varjak

“- Belle Starr: Seems like you folks are havin' a real nice party in there.
- Cole Younger: I expect so, with free food and drink and all.
- Belle Starr: How come I wasn't invited?
- Cole Younger: 'Cause you're a whore, Belle.
- Belle Starr: I might be; but at least I ain't a cheap one.”
Pamela Reed - Belle Shirley Starr
David Carradine - Cole Younger

“- Humpty Alexander Dumpty: I'm not a person. I'm not a bird. I'm not even a food. I don't know what I am.
- Puss in Boots: You are what you have always been: my brother.”
Zach Galifianakis - Humpty Alexander Dumpty
Antonio Banderas - Puss in Boots

“I have the power! The quickening that empowers me! I feel everything! I know everything! I am everything!”
Christopher Lambert - Duncan McLeod

“- Walter: How do you live with yourself?
- Barley: Actually I don't live with myself. I tend to give myself a pretty wide berth.”
Ken Russell - Walter
Sir Sean Connery - Barley

“To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self.”
Lili Taylor - Kathleen Conklin