Age Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you…

— R.G. Collingwood

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

— Vernon Howard

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,

— Plato

He who knows himself knows others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

— Karl Shapiro

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Knowledge of self ought to be the great project of our lives. Knowing ourselves we will know others. Only by knowing ourselves can we…

— Ben Okri

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

— F. H. Bradley