“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” — Oroma Elewa Copy Share Image
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins provide keys to understanding our faults and the actions that result, and a framework for self knowledge. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
What you choose to do with your time while you still alive thats up to you. Know dat once u gone what… — Dul Copy Share Image
“... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing."… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Self-remembrance is vital to be successful esoterically. It is only in those moments when you remember to do it that an inner… — Belzebuub Copy Share Image
“The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Self knowledge is a virtue in its own right. We value the way in which people can fulfill their own natures by… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is… — Amadou Hampate Ba Copy Share Image
'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly,… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
She is like a book with many pages, like a novel with ironic flaws, unpredictable twist with a dash of sarcastic humor,… — Epifania Savea Copy Share Image
There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and… — Immodesty Blaize Copy Share Image
My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge… — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Trial and error are keys to growth and self-knowledge. Reinvention may require being reintroduced to yourself. Self-discovery may not be a requirement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Inner peace is something that is shaped by the wisdom that ‘this too shall pass’ and is fired in the kiln of… — Tania Ahsan Copy Share Image
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources… They enlarge his… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the… — Bill Hayes Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and… — RZA Copy Share Image
“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then,… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
“Without first knowing yourself, how can you know what is true? Illusion is inevitable without self knowledge. It is childish to be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Knowing your true self will help you work more effectively to reach your goals. It will lead you down the road to… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image