Quotes about knowledge of Self

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: 4

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. Votes: 4

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. Votes: 4

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self. Votes: 3

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Votes: 3

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self. Votes: 3

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality. Votes: 3

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self. Votes: 3

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self. Votes: 3

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. Votes: 3

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience. Votes: 3

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted. Votes: 3

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self Votes: 3

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

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: 3

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

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

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

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Votes: 2

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. Votes: 2

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

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

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: 2

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

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. Votes: 2

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

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

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character. Votes: 2

That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950. Votes: 2

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

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. Votes: 2

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

Self-knowledge makes me happy. Votes: 0

All knowledge is self-reflective. Votes: 0

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge Votes: 0

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Self knowledge is always bad news. Votes: 0

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Votes: 0

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

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help! Votes: 0

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

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

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

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement. Votes: 0

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

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery. Votes: 0

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

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. Votes: 0

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

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. Votes: 0

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. Votes: 0

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. Votes: 0

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

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. Votes: 0

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

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. Votes: 0

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

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

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

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. Votes: 0

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

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. Votes: 0

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge Votes: 0

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

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

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives Votes: 0

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one. Votes: 0

. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

..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

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

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

...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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 0

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

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