Your character is who you are. To understand yourself is to know your character. To love yourself is to love your character. — Anonymous 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
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
“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
I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person.… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Accept mistakes as part of life. Be bold enough to admit your mistakes, smart enough to learn and gain from them, and… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“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
“It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-knowledge” or understanding one’s… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of… — Abdullah Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events,… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own… — Jill Purce 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
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
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
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
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
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
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“After one divorce and other on the way I am seriously considering a ME-rriage now and .t's going to be epic! I… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what he was playing up to—if he was playing up to anything at all—and I suspect he did not… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most important opinion you have is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
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