Self Knowledge Quotes
219 quotes by 167 authors
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Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.
— Robin Sharma
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
— Vernon Howard
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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
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The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.
— Mirra Komarovsky
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What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge
— Vivian Gornick
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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
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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
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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
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When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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
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The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
— Mirra Komarovsky
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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
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A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
— Ellen Langer
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
— Jane Austen
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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
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If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
— Jean Paul
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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
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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
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"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
Who Wrote These Self Knowledge Quotes
167 authors contributed a total of 219 Self Knowledge Quotes, led by these top contributors: