Self Knowledge Quotes

219 quotes by 167 authors

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out… — Amy Sedaris
If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When… — Tom Stoppard
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is… — Alain de Botton
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. — John Calvin
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What… — G I Gurdjieff
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not… — Ramakrishna
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with… — Carl Sagan
Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are,… — Colleen McCullough
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. — Joseph Conrad
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self… — Bruce Lee
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge. — Bruce Lee
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The… — Flannery O'Connor
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. — John Taylor Gatto
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is. — James Carlos Blake
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality. — Muhammad Ali
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to… — Cornelius Van Til
Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings… — Norman Vincent Peale
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. — George Santayana
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your… — Marilyn Ferguson
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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