Don't I know myself?
A question we hear every day but we do not answer it, and the one who said it does not answer it. Because, as we all know, there is no need for an answer, or his answer in the verbal language replaces his answer in the verbal language, as if we are saying to everyone who asks him: Excuse me.. How can you not know yourself? .. You know her by investigation!
However, I say after a long experience of the psychological motives that push me to do both the largest deeds and the smallest deeds: A person knows himself by guessing, not by investigating, and that in his guesses about it, he is often a stranger searching for a strange secret, and there is no difference in this between searching for our own deeds and searching for the deeds of others except in degree and amount, by virtue of habit and repetition.
Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad