The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and… — Belsebuub Copy Share Image
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“This self-knowledge is the foundation for becoming the wise, compassionate, and peaceful person you have the capacity to become. So how do… — Cindy Wigglesworth 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist.… — RZA 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
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
“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
“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
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
“Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
You are surprised at your imperfections,--why? I should infer from that, that your self-knowledge is small. Surely you might rather be astonished… — Jean Grou 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
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
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
'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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“... 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 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
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
“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
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