Achieve Quote by John Calvin

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after…

— John Calvin

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…

— Cornelius Van Til

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for…

— Cornelius Van Til

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

— Stephen Charnock

“A man must be ignorant of himself before he can be ignorant of the existence of God.”

— William Symington

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such…

— George Santayana

He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine…

— Herman Melville

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not…

— Joshua Reynolds

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

— Rafael Sabatini

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives…

— Max Stirner

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton