Character Quote by Ian Hacking

“Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.”

— Gian Kumar

“Self-knowledge is the foundation of a practical spirituality, a spirituality that ripples outward from the self into the world.”

— Marya Hornbacher

“A person devoted to attaining self-realization would be foolish to ignore the well-intended advice of people whom care about them. Although it is essential…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“This self-knowledge is crucial because we can build a happy life only on the foundation of our own nature, our own interests, and our…

— Gretchen Rubin

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around.…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a sense of…

— David Whyte

“Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?”

— Edward St. Aubyn

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

— Vernon Howard

“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

“Once we appeal to our most intimate selves, once we begin to labor and to produce, we lay claim to gifts, we become unconscious…

— Emil Cioran

All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe