Self Knowledge Quotes

219 quotes by 167 authors

The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather… — Bruce Lee
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we… — Bruce Lee
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge. — Bruce Lee
It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure,… — Arianna Huffington
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding.… — Abdullah Ibrahim
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.… — Gary Snyder
Self knowledge is always bad news. — John Barth
And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for… — Herman Melville
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. — Simone de Beauvoir
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin
Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they… — Judy Chu
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order… — Charles Caleb Colton
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing… — Charles Caleb Colton
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. — John Calvin
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom,… — John Calvin
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter — Johann Georg Hamann
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge… — Andrea Dworkin

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