Self Knowledge Quotes

219 quotes by 167 authors

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. — Teresa of Avila
Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward. — Paule Marshall
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows… — Thomas Aquinas
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well… — Golda Meir
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your… — Frederick Lenz
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge. — Frederick Lenz
Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. — Robert Kiyosaki
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. — Charles de Lint
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. — Marilyn French
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to… — Khalil Gibran
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain… — G I Gurdjieff
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. — Mason Cooley
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. — Quentin Crisp
I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. — Jamie Lee Curtis
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why,… — Meister Eckhart
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. — Elizabeth Edwards
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. — Albert Einstein
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! — William Hague
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. — Franz Kafka
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world,… — Franz Kafka

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