Oneself Quotes

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.

Searching for the one thing, that would set my sad soul free.

Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God’s help, he has been victorious.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth and what you tell it.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.