I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
David Herbert Lawrence

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Ellen Glasgow

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
Ralph W. Sockman

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
William Law

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
William Law

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
Tom Hopkins

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Lord Chesterfield

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry B. Adams

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
E. Stanley Jones

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Margaret Fuller

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
Vera Wang

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
Manfred von Richthofen

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno