Know Oneself Quotes
25 quotes by 21 authors
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the…
— Saint Basil
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is…
— Bruce Lee
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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
— Michael Novak
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To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is…
— Sherman Paul
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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
— Laozi
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our…
— Sydney J. Harris
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
— Carl Van Vechten
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It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
— Adi Shankara
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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
— Bruce Lee
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing…
— Blaise Pascal
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self…
— Bruce Lee
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[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The…
— Flannery O'Connor
Who Wrote These Know Oneself Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 25 Know Oneself Quotes as follows: