Self-Knowledge Quotes

123 quotes by 105 authors

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. — Elbert Hubbard
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. — William James
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
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. — Billie Jean King
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. — Ann Landers
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. — Abraham Lincoln
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life. — Mickey Mantle
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first… — Thomas Merton
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing… — Blaise Pascal
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. — Gilda Radner
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' — Ayn Rand
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great… — Julia Roberts
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is… — Bertrand Russell
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. — William Shakespeare
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. — Nate Silver
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured… — Jane Smiley
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. — Alice Walker

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