Best knowledge & self-knowledge Quotes

Source: Strangest Secret

“Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.”

Thinking Trying Mean Ideas Opinion Knowledge Duty Absolutes Constant Suits Grain Self Knowledge Egotism Freeze Unkind Flux

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I know everything except myself.”

Knows Knowledge Self Knowledge

Author:Francois Villon

“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.”

“The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”

Humans Self Loses Knowledge Worst Conditions Behavior Self Knowledge

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.”

Knows Men Mind Firsts Two Running Natural Knowledge Ignorance Birth Pure Conscious Extremes Self Knowledge Back Again Great Minds Two Extremes

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.”

People Knows Home Order Knowledge Mankind Easier Travel Oneself Self Knowledge Knowing Oneself

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.”

Mind Eye Dark Sin Knowledge Gone Knowing Birth Apples Adam Self Knowledge Adam And Eve Sins Not

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”

Knows Use Friendship Knowledge Trust Self Knowledge Defects Foe

Book:Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes

Source: Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes

“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”

Self Three Leadership Knowledge Power Positive Reverence Mastery Self Control Self Knowledge Sovereign Self Restraint Power And Control Self Power Controlling Power

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.”

Self Knowledge Confidence Self Confidence Self Knowledge Assurance Self Esteem And Confidence Confidence In Yourself Self Assurance

Author:George Santayana

“Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.”

Firsts Desire Knowledge Fire Increase Agents Self Knowledge

Book:Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson

Source: Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson

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

Men Giving Self Purpose Perfect Knowledge Highest Intellectual Mastery Self Knowledge Inner Self Cultivation

Author:Novalis

“Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.”

Given Nature Knowledge Seeds Self Knowledge

Author:Seneca the Younger

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

Ifs Self Pleasure Knowledge Emotional Illusion Discovery Painful Self Discovery Ignorant Self Knowledge Know Yourself Self Conscious Willful Ignorance

Author:Aldous Huxley

“In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.”

“Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.”

Knowledge Self Knowledge

Book:Vindiciae Gallicae

Source: Vindiciae Gallicae

“Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.”

People Knowledge Special Self Knowledge

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.”

Want Self Knowledge Rich Honest Honesty Acceptance Finals Self Knowledge Explorers

Author:Elias Canetti

“The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.”

Knows Mind Self Knowledge Awareness Acceptance Self Knowledge

Author:F. H. Bradley

“Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.”

Self Knowledge Acceptance Reflection Self Knowledge

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.”

Knows Heaven Knowledge Self Knowledge Thyself Know Thyself

Author:Juvenal

“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”

May Self Stars Knowledge Psychology Acceptance Ego Discovery Self Discovery Cosmos Self Knowledge Self-examination

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.”

Long Knowledge Commitment Cheeks Self Knowledge Rakes

Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.”

Reality Individual Knowledge Cases Study Fashion Ignorance Careful Insane Sensitive Disorder Self Knowledge Psychics Mental Disorder

Author:Aberjhani

“Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.”

Knows Men Difficult Known Knowledge Self Knowledge

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.”

Knows Should Science Knowledge Rivers Accounts Self Knowledge Jeans

Book:The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]

Source: The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]

“Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.”

“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.”

Men Self Literature Knowledge Knowing Self Knowledge Knowing Others

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.”

Men Littles Has Beens Light Order Knowledge Gone Taught Please Intellectual Acquire Self Knowledge

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.”

May Has Beens Enjoy Views Knowledge Discovery Standing Fruit Shoulders Observation Former Giants Self Knowledge Comprehensive Forefathers Dwarfs Dwarves Uniting

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.”

People Age Knowledge Too Much Intelligent Old Age Sensible Despise Self Knowledge

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“You never know yourself till you know more than your body.”

Knows Body Knowledge Your Body Self Knowledge Know Yourself

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

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