Innocence Quote by Anonymous

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Part of the answer is that self-knowledge has never been one of our strong points. To the contrary, even the most elemental knowledge of…

— John A. Sanford

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

— F. H. Bradley

“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is…

— Michael J. Sandel

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

— Sam Keen

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around.…

— Flannery O'Connor

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Knowing” can be useful, but learning not to know creates a powerful openness that is inconceivable until it is experienced.”

— Peter Ralston

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

— Aberjhani