Self Knowledge Quotes

219 quotes by 167 authors

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery. — Robin Sharma
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives — Vernon Howard
Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge. — Mirra Komarovsky
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge — Vivian Gornick
Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the… — David F. Wells
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict… — Nate Silver
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. — Mirra Komarovsky
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else… — Ramana Maharshi
A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves. — Ellen Langer
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. — Jane Austen
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature,… — Georg Buhler
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. — Jean Paul
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The… — Rajneesh
"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach… — Anwar Sadat

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