quotes about Self Knowledge
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
-- Anais Nin -
After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.
-- Bruce Lee -
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
-- Charles de Lint -
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You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.
-- Francine Prose -
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.
-- Golda Meir -
Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
-- Helen Gurley Brown -
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True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.
-- Immortal Technique -
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
-- James Carlos BlakeSource : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
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Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
-- James MackintoshSource : James Mackintosh (1791). “Vindiciae Gallicae”, p.199
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If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
-- Jean Paul -
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In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself.
-- Jill Purce -
Self knowledge is always bad news.
-- John BarthSource : John Barth (2014). “Giles Goat Boy”, p.170, Anchor
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
-- John Calvin -
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Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
-- John Taylor Gatto -
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.
-- Mirra Komarovsky -
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
-- Vernon Howard -
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
-- William Hague