Quote by Beryl Markham

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about othe

Summary

This quote suggests that throughout our lives, we may devote more time and energy to understanding and learning about others than we do to truly understanding ourselves. It implies that self-reflection and self-exploration are often overlooked or neglected, leading to a lack of self-awareness. Despite the passing of years, we may find ourselves having a deeper understanding of the experiences, thoughts, and perspectives of others, while our own internal world and true selves remain relatively unknown. This quote serves as a reminder to prioritize self-discovery and introspection, as it is through understanding ourselves that we can cultivate a more fulfilling and authentic life.

Topics

By Beryl Markham

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grow

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubblingover boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the eart

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Sir Walter Raleigh

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; wh

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

Sendhil Mullainathan

I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come

I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.

Jennifer Connelly

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winso

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable onc

If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dan

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson

Politics Government Banks Debt Deficit Spending Loans Political Science

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Pos

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Jean Francois Lyotard

Modern Modernism