American scholar Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather…

— Edward Hooker Dewey

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

— Plutarch

Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and…

— Boyd K. Packer

“A lowly knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than the deep searching of a man’s learnings. Not that learning is to…

— Thomas à Kempis

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier…

— Mary Shelley

“What we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect and attention in order to…

— Paulo Coelho

“of light and life, thou Good Supreme!           O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself!           Save me from folly, vanity, and vice,           From…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Thou must hasten therefore; not only because thou art every day nearer unto death than other, but also because that intellective faculty in thee,…

— Marcus Aurelius

Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters…

— Karl Ernst von Baer

“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been…

— Elie Wiesel

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton