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Quotes about Self-knowledge

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all Knowle
So it is incumbent on me to know myself,
to know it completely, to know its minutiae,
its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
- Kahlil Gibran
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SELF-KNOWLEDGE
COMES FROM
KNOWING OTHER MEN
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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Self-reverence, self-
knowledge, self-
control; these three
alone lead one to
sovereign power.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
English poet
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UNDERSTANDING
IS DEEPER THAN
KNOWLEDGE
THERE ARE MANV
PEOPLE WHO KNOW
YOU, BUT THERE ARE
VERV FEW WHO
UNDERSTAND YOU
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'"I'll" MORE YOU KNOW YOURSELF,
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SELF-KNOWLEDGE HAS NO END,
YOU DON'T COME TO AN
ACHIEVEMENT', YOU DON'T COME TO
A CONCLUSION. IT IS AN
ENDLESS RIVER."
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
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No man can teach
another self-knowledge.
He can only lead him or
her up to self-discovery -
the source of truth.
Barry
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"NEVER STOP
SEARCHING FOR
INFORMATION AND
SELF-KNOWLEDGE.
ONCE YOU DO,
IGNORANCE SETS IN."
- ROBERT KIYOSAKI
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SELF IMPROVEMENT IS MASTURBATION
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"SELF-REVERENCE, SELF-KNOWLEDGE, SELF-
CONTROL; THESE THREE ALONE LEAD ONE TO
SOVEREIGN POWER."
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
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THE ONLY SOURCE
OF KNOWLEDGE IS
EXPERIENCE.
Albert Einstein
German Theoretical-Physicist
(1879-1955)
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The beginning of self-
knowledge: recognizing
that your motives are the
same as other people's.
Mason Cooley
American aphorist
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SELF-REVERENCE, SELF-KNOWLEDGE,
SELF-CONTROL - TTTESE TITREE ALONE
LEAD TO POWER.
-ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
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"Knowing yourself is the
beginning of all wisdom!'
-Aristotle
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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of
those who possess it. This must be understood
from the very beginning. One must learn from him
who knows.
(George Gurdjieff)
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SELF-NEVENENCE,
self-knowledge,
self-contrcl•
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"AMBITION IS BEST TEMPERED WITH SELF-
KNOWLEDGE!"
WILLIAM HAGUE
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"THE GREATEST ENEMY OF
KNOWLEDGE IS NOT IGNORANCE,
IT IS THE ILLUSION OF
KNOWLEDGE."
STEPHEN HAWKING
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Self-knowledge
is the only
basis of true
knowledge
John Taylor Gatto
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Self-knowledge is the basis of
jeet kune do because it is
effective not only for the
individual's martial art but also
for his life as a human being.
Bruce Lee
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SELF-REVERENCE,
SELF-KNOWLEDGE,
SELF-CONTROL;
THESE THREE ALONE
LEAD ONE TO
SOVEREIGN POWER.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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mae man shallow insane.
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Self-knowledge involves
relationship. To know oneself is
to study one self in action with
another person. Relationship is a
process of self evaluation and self
revelation. Relationship is the
mirror in which you discover
yourself - to be is to be related.
Bruce Lee
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Self-reverence, self-
knowledge, self-
control; these three
alone lead one to
sovereign power.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
English Poet
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"THE GREATEST ENEMY OF
KNOWLEDGE IS NOT IGNORANCE,
IT THE ILLUSION OF
KNOWLEDGE."
STEPHEN HAWKING
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What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge Votes: 3

Vivian Gornick
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Votes: 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! Votes: 2

William Hague
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. Votes: 2

F. H. Bradley
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I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. Votes: 2

Elizabeth Edwards
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. Votes: 2

F. H. Bradley
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. Votes: 2

Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. Votes: 2

Nate Silver
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I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. Votes: 2

Jamie Lee Curtis
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. Votes: 2

Mason Cooley
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. Votes: 2

Alice Walker
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. Votes: 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. Votes: 2

Marilyn French
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I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. Votes: 2

Wislawa Szymborska
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I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge. Votes: 2

Susie Bright
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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. Votes: 2

Franz Kafka
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Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again. Votes: 2

Toni Servillo
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Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind. Votes: 2

Meg Rosoff
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Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths. Votes: 2

Virginia Postrel
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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. Votes: 2

Marilyn Ferguson
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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 most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age. Votes: 2

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative. Votes: 2

Charles J. Shields
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge. Votes: 2

Walter Kirn
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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader. Votes: 2

Cynthia Ozick
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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. Votes: 2

Jane Smiley
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Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement. Votes: 1

Baltasar Gracian
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Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help! Votes: 1

Mika
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The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge Votes: 1

Laozi
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Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. Votes: 1

Robert Kiyosaki
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one. Votes: 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives Votes: 1

Vernon Howard
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. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. Votes: 1

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone. Votes: 1

Bryant McGill
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. Votes: 1

Okakura Kakuzo
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Self-knowledge makes me happy. Votes: 0

Gretchen Rubin
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All knowledge is self-reflective. Votes: 0

Jerry Uelsmann
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Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita
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All knowledge leads to self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Bruce Lee
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge, Votes: 0

Plato
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Self knowledge is always bad news. Votes: 0

John Barth
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All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge. Votes: 0

Bruce Lee
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. Votes: 0

Jane Austen
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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known. Votes: 0

Laozi
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Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self. Votes: 0

Shirley MacLaine
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The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle
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After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Bruce Lee
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All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge. Votes: 0

Bruce Lee
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Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra
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Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. Votes: 0

John Taylor Gatto
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The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Mirra Komarovsky
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The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Thomas C Foster
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. Votes: 0

George Santayana
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge. Votes: 0

David Mamet
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Votes: 0

John Calvin
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True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self. Votes: 0

Immortal Technique
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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality. Votes: 0

Muhammad Ali
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self. Votes: 0

Nelly
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The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita
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Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves. Votes: 0

Russ Roberts
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Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. Votes: 0

Leon Surmelian
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self. Votes: 0

John Fowles
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Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. Votes: 0

K. Pattabhi Jois
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The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho
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Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill
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Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure. Votes: 0

Peggy Orenstein
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. Votes: 0

Anais Nin
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Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self. Votes: 0

Tammy Louise Wilkins
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. Votes: 0

John Calvin
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. Votes: 0

Charles de Lint
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A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Jean Paul
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You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self. Votes: 0

Christine McCormick Day
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I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way. Votes: 0

Sam Keen
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When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn
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With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. Votes: 0

Robin McKinley
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True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle
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We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone. Votes: 0

Bryant H. McGill
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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. Votes: 0

Michael Sandel
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Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge Votes: 0

Albert Bandura
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley
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Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem. Votes: 0

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz
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Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered. Votes: 0

Gisele Bundchen
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. Votes: 0

Ramana Maharshi
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The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. Votes: 0

Mirra Komarovsky
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I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self Votes: 0

KRS-One
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There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge . Votes: 0

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
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I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common." Votes: 0

Ouida
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I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. Votes: 0

Ouida
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Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted. Votes: 0

Steven J Lawson
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I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me. Votes: 0

Tracy Morgan
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. Votes: 0

Okakura Kakuzō
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A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. Votes: 0

Edward Alsworth Ross
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Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around. Votes: 0

Richard Holbrooke
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being. Votes: 0

Lord Acton
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Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran
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A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. Votes: 0

Jose Marti
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There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. Votes: 0

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. Votes: 0

Irina Bokova
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No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. Votes: 0

Barry Long
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad
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Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son. Votes: 0

William Torrey Harris
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. Votes: 0

Novalis
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad
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..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. Votes: 0

Nirmala Srivastava
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While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean. Votes: 0

John de Ruiter
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What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self. Votes: 0

Samael Aun Weor
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead
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Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. Votes: 0

Claudia Gray
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Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. Votes: 0

Elijah Muhammad
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. Votes: 0

Simone de Beauvoir
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Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry. Votes: 0

Quentin Crisp
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Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter Votes: 0

Johann Georg Hamann
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Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person. Votes: 0

Alan Watts
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In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self. Votes: 0

Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley
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True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge Votes: 0

Félix J. Palma
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Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. Votes: 0

Sebastian Coe
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Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other. Votes: 0

Meher Baba
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We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge. Votes: 0

Nirmala Srivastava
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them Votes: 0

Walter Benjamin
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I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott
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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 his knowledge. Votes: 0

Cornelius Van Til
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Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God. Votes: 0

Clement of Alexandria
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Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately. Votes: 0

Julian Assange
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The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence. Votes: 0

Milan Kundera
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Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility Votes: 0

Mother Teresa
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The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon. Votes: 0

Dov Davidoff
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. Votes: 0

George Gurdjieff
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. Votes: 0

G. I. Gurdjieff
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. Votes: 0

Will Durant
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"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge." Votes: 0

Anwar Sadat
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There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.... Votes: 0

Thomas Aquinas
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I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests. Votes: 0

Gretchen Rubin
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Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to intuitive knowledge of the Divine Ground. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley
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Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being. Votes: 0

Bruce Lee
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I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Anwar Sadat
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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. Votes: 0

Jean Piaget
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Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self. Votes: 0

Valerie Steele
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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it. Votes: 0

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
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Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being. Votes: 0

R.W. Southern
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One minute with a silent spirit of self-knowledge is enough to align you to put smiles on the face of the boring world. The world needs you! Yes it does! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor
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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, but who ponder over their results. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli
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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 such contemplation to look into himself. Votes: 0

John Calvin
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened. Votes: 0

Herman Melville
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I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis
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[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . . Votes: 0

Flannery O'Connor
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom. Votes: 0

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described. Votes: 0

Douglas Hofstadter
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Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Peggy Orenstein
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Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree. Votes: 0

Thomas Keating
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My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility Votes: 0

Camille Paglia
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth. Votes: 0

Andrea Dworkin
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Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery. Votes: -1

Robin Sharma
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. Votes: -1

Simone de Beauvoir
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Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. Votes: -1

Karl Shapiro
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The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

Bruce Lee
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In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

Frederick Lenz
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If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

Immodesty Blaize
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Ramana Maharshi
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There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.

Ben Stewart
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The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

Jamie Lee Curtis
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From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.

St. Catherine of Siena
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Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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You are surprised at your imperfections,--why? I should infer from that, that your self-knowledge is small. Surely you might rather be astonished that you do not fall into more frequent and more grievous faults, and thank God for His upholding grace.

Jean Grou
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Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.

Norman Vincent Peale
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The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ...Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

Laurie Beth Jones
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... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.

Robert Farrar Capon
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The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

Bruce Lee
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It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

Arianna Huffington
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Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.

Dan Millman
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