Self Knowledge Quotes

219 quotes by 167 authors

History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the… — Robin G. Collingwood
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. — Samuel Johnson
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. — Seneca the Younger
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley
In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students… — Michael N. Nagler
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. — James Mackintosh
Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself. — Benjamin Carson
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor… — Thomas Merton
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel… — Nirmala Srivastava
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the Spirit, which is… — Nirmala Srivastava
We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge. — Nirmala Srivastava
The Spirit which is within you is a collective being and once you are awakened into the light of Spirit, you become a collective being.… — Nirmala Srivastava
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. — F. H. Bradley
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava
To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of… — Walter Kirn
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place -… — Meg Rosoff
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one left its print on a soil alien tot him, but on which human kind will germinate along with… — Sorin Cerin

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