Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow."
Self Discovery quotes
Self Discovery
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"
Plato
Philosopher
"The life which is not examined is not worth living."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Come to the Root of the Root of your Self"
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"All education is self-discovery."
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