Historical Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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…

— 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

“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

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

— Bruce Lee

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,

— Plato

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.

— Mirra Komarovsky

..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

“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

[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

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

— Bruce Lee

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are…

— Anonymous

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

— Elizabeth Edwards