Identity Quotes

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This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosop

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Albert Einstein

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Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enem

Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

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If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will

If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.

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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as y

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

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Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to

Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the re

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

Shashi Deshpande

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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own th

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

James Russell Lowell

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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Better to see the face than to hear the name.

Better to see the face than to hear the name.

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can pre

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show S

I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.

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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Michel de Montaigne

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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the re

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

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Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all t

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.

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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because se

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Phi

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the ser

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Identity Service Discovery Socialservice Self Discovery

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Meister Eckhart

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So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a num

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lo

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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