Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
“Identification is why the reader reads and why the writer writes. We all want to identify with a character, so that we… — Jerry Cleaver Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Whose interest does ignorance serve? If we humans bear, say, hereditary propensities toward the hatred of strangers, isn’t self-knowledge the only antidote?… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“You don’t need to wait for someone else to notice your talents before nourishing them. You don’t need others to accept you… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to… — George K. Simon Jr Copy Share Image
To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely,… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“We see that in the organic world, to the same degree that reflection gets darker and weaker, grace grows ever more radiant… — Heinrich von Kleist Copy Share Image
“The purpose of life is to live. To live is to express. To express is to be what you want to be… — James Breckenridge Jones Copy Share Image
“E. Tory Higgins (1987) suggests that self-knowledge encompasses three major domains: the actual self, the ideal self, and the ought self. The… — Dan P. McAdams Copy Share Image
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something… — Randy Komisar Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I don't know why, but people seem to be fascinated to learn how some members of society fall through the cracks. I… — James Bowen Copy Share Image
“Letter To An Immortal They're not going to understand the lightning in your veins. They'll expect you to apologize for the wildflowers… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one left its print on a soil alien tot him, but on which human kind will… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“...young people know very little about themselves and their abilities. When the day comes on which they discover their real strong points… — Hugo Munsterberg Copy Share Image
“The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
