Humans Quote by Elizabeth Edwards Download Open image “I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.” — Elizabeth Edwards ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Self Self knowledge Thinking Traits
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Part of the answer is that self-knowledge has never been one of our strong points. To the contrary, even the most elemental knowledge of… — John A. Sanford Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“Actually, an important part of self-knowledge is that it gives one a better realization of the inner strength that can be called upon, of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity” — Charles Hayes Copy Share Image
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself.… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
