The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
Gamaliel Bailey

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
James Meade

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
Ethel Percy Andrus

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
John Fowles

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
Maurice Chevalier

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
David Herbert Lawrence

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Franz Kafka

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
Christy Turlington

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
Pierre Schaeffer

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
Clara Schumann

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Knut Hamsun