“At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass,… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The Golden Rule requires self-knowledge; it asks that we use our own feelings as a guide to our behavior with others. If… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Part of the answer is that self-knowledge has never been one of our strong points. To the contrary, even the most elemental… — John A. Sanford Copy Share Image
“Dear young woman, do not place your sense of beauty and self worth, upon the plastic pedestal called "what other people say… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The shifting voices of a thousand selves eventually must tire and dwindle. One voiceless voice dwells in the void and discerns. Wait… — Unknow 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
The good choices that we make usually come from what we have been through while the knowledge and experience that we acquire… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me,… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
“It is easy for one to be a hypocrite unashamedly because so often knowledge leads to justification: we know ourselves and our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Actually, an important part of self-knowledge is that it gives one a better realization of the inner strength that can be called… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And… — Fredrik Sjöberg Copy Share Image
“Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God… — Nirmala Srivastava 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
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
“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
“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
“You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image