#oneself

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

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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. ↗

— Mencius

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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. ↗

— Michael Novak

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To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. ↗

— Evita Peron

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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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

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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. ↗

— Michelangelo

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