Self Knowledge Quotes

219 quotes by 167 authors

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement. — Baltasar Gracian
Know the enemy and know yourself. — Sun Tzu
I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically… — Anwar Sadat
Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self. — Nelly
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. — Frederick Lenz
There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just… — Frederick Lenz
Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without… — Frederick Lenz
In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The… — Frederick Lenz
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. — Karl Shapiro
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate â€˜knowledgeâ€™ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and… — G. C. Berkouwer
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law --… — Clarice Lispector
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because… — Charles J. Shields
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become. — Coco Chanel
Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. — Claude M. Bristol
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool. — Zhuangzi
We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it… — G I Gurdjieff
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because… — Agatha Christie
If I could know me, I could know the universe. — Shirley MacLaine

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