Self-knowledge quotes
468 self-knowledge quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: THe Bourne Identity
“- Jason Bourne: Who am I?
- Conklin: You're U.S. Government property. You're a malfunctioning $30 million weapon. You're a total goddamn catastrophe, and by God, if it kills me, you're going to tell me how this happened.” - From the movie: Pollock
“All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims. The thing that interests me is that today, painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. They work from a different source, they work from within. It seems to me that the artist cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio,...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Primary Colors
“I'm blacker than you are. I got some slave in me, I can feel it.”
- From the movie: What Women Want
“He made you feel the price you pay just for being you is that you don't get to have love.”
- From the movie: Spider-Man
“Wherever you husband is, he is searching... for himself.”
- From the movie: Surf Nazis Must Die
“I am the Führer of the beach!”
- From the movie: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
“I found my destiny, not in far off places but within myself.”
- From the movie: Seed of Chucky
“I don't know much about myself. I know I'm an orphan. I know I'm a freak. And, of course, I know that I'm Japanese.”
- From the movie: Murder by Numbers
“You're so good breaking other people down, but you never stop to take a look at yourself.”
- From the movie: Happy Campers
“Nobody tells you how to be an adult. You just keep getting older anyway.”
- From the movie: The Pillow Book
“- Nagiko: You've been reading my diary?
- The Husband: Isn't that why people keep diaries? To be read by someone else? Otherwise why keep them?
- Nagiko: To know about themselves.” - From the movie: Red Dragon
“What particular body I currently occupy is trivial. The important thing is what I am becoming. I know that you alone can understand this transformation.”
- From the movie: X2
“- Wolverine: Who am I?
- William Stryker: If you knew the kind of person you used to be, the work we did together... People don't change, Wolverine. You were an animal then and you're an animal now. I just gave you claws.” - From the movie: Clockwatchers
“I once read that there are two kinds of time: mechanical and human. You could say my story began at 8:59 the day I started that job, and ended months later, when I left it. But I'd tell you it began in the past, with my old self; and ended in the future, the new one.”
- From the movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
There's some wizards, like the Malfoy family, who think they're better than everyone else because they're what people call "pure blood".
- From the movie: Crimes and Misdemeanors
“We are the sum total of our choices.”
- From the movie: Cocktail
- From the movie: Memento
“We all lie to ourselves to be happy.”
- From the movie: Dave
“You don't really know how much you can do until you stand up and decide to try.”
- From the movie: Random Harvest
“- Charles Rainier: I don't even know who I am.
- Paula: I know who you are. You're someone awfully nice.” - From the movie: Heaven Can Wait
“I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.”
- From the movie: Total Recall
“If I am not me, then who the hell am I?”
- From the movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“I’m not Holly. I’m not Lula Mae, either. I don’t know who I am! I’m like Cat here, We’re a couple of no-name slobs. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don’t even belong to each other. Stop the cab. What do you think? This ought to be the right kind place for a tough guy like you - garbage cans, rats galore. Scram! I said take off!...” (continue)(continue reading)
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