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“By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.”

“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.”

Doe Self Hurt Path Graves Hungry Confused Self Knowledge Examination Self-examination

Author:Quentin Crisp

“To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!”

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child

“The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.”

Want Self Self Knowledge Explorers

Author:Elias Canetti

“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.”

Knows Self Wisdom Mother Culture Diversity Social Justice Characteristics Atoms Self Knowledge Subtlety Incumbents Minutiae

Author:Khalil Gibran

“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

“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

“Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.”

“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.”

Ifs Men I Can Self Helping Fun Effects Men And Women Glad Self Knowledge Influential Rama Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.”

Ifs Self Lost Dignity Who You Are Self Respect Self Knowledge True Knowledge

Author:Immortal Technique

“Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.”

Wells Self Lying Courses Stars Moral Sun Return Moon Seasons Difficulty Faults Self Knowledge Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes

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

Self Common Mets Thousand Self Knowledge

Book:Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies

Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies

“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.”

Thinking Action Psychology Oneself Self Knowledge Knowing Oneself

Book:Carnets: 1935-1942

Source: Carnets: 1935-1942

“Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.”

Self Technology Self Knowledge

Book:Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation

Source: Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation

“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.”

Way Self Wisdom Three Wish Wilderness Self Knowledge Abyss Resent Shortcuts Spas

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

People Knows Self Play Passion Results Knowing Awareness Property Humankind Self Knowledge Pondering Knowing Something

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.”

Knows Self Moments Able School Ability Know How Failing Rocks Sitting Desert Self Knowledge Confrontation Teachable Sitting Alone Teachable Moments

Author:Richard Rohr

“Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.”

“I know everything except myself.”

Knows Knowledge Self Knowledge

Author:Francois Villon

“I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.”

“The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.”

Real Self Reason Quests Self Knowledge

Book:How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Source: How to Read Literature Like a Professor

“Freedom is knowing who you really are.”

Freedom Knowing Self Knowledge

Author:Bill Vaughan

“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.”

Knows Existence Teacher Students Ignorance Concepts Opposites Absolutes Justify Considering Self Knowledge Banking Knowledgeable

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“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.”

“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.”

Writing Mind Wells Self Dark Essentials Corners Self Knowledge Subconscious Subconscious Mind Deep Dark

Author:Meg Rosoff

“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, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.”

Ifs Writing Firsts May Self Reading Born Fiction Class Teach Reader Wide Urges Self Knowledge Fiction Writers Reading Fiction

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!”

Self Ambition Self Knowledge

Author:William Hague

“... 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.”

Self Moving Desire Universe Self Love Highest And Love God Love Self Knowledge Participation

Book:Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

Source: Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

“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

“The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?”

Ifs Knows Important Self Important Things Self Knowledge Know Yourself Knowing God

Author:RZA

“Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.”

Knows Self Age Figures Self Knowledge True Self Questions Asked

Author:RZA

“If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.”

Ifs Knows Self Knowing Self Knowledge Know Yourself Self Knowing

Author:RZA

“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)

“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.”

Should Self Might Fall Grace Faults Imperfection Thank God Self Knowledge

Author:Jean Grou

“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.”

Looks Important Self Female Males Look Up Self Knowledge Incarnation

Book:Meher Baba on the Problem of Sex & the Sanctity of Married Life: With a Warning on the Means of Birth Control

Source: Meher Baba on the Problem of Sex & the Sanctity of Married Life: With a Warning on the Means of Birth Control

“All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.”

Self Self Knowledge

Author:Bruce Lee

“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”

Giving Self Humility Knees Self Knowledge Knowledge Of God

Author:Mother Teresa

“I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.”

Knows Looks Self Mirrors Who I Am Self Knowledge

Author:Tracy Morgan

“People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera”

People Self Past Social Information Source Skills Accomplishment Rely Comparison Capability Surprising Self Knowledge Coping Stirring Efficacy Visceral Self Efficacy

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge”

Wells May Self Action Demand Tasks Self Knowledge Stem Efficacy Self Efficacy Misperception Incongruity

Author:Albert Bandura

“Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.”

Knows Inspirational Mean Can Do Self Awareness Personal Growth About Yourself Self Knowledge Self Development Know Yourself Thyself Miscellaneous Self Growth Know Thyself Self Knowing Personal Growth And Development Development And Growth Personal Influence

Author:Menander

“The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.”

World Self Accepting Fields Intellectual Scientist Starting Relate Maps Sensibility Self Knowledge Starting Point Terrain Unexplored

Book:The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas

Source: The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas

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

Thinking Way Self Hard Darkness Self Knowledge Entering

Author:Sam Keen

“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.”

Self Journey Maps Self Knowledge Incomplete Halt

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.”

Thinking Self Moments Attention Awareness Self Knowledge Privileged Fishy

Author:Marjorie Grene

“The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.”

Self Cures Righteousness Self Knowledge Self Righteousness

Book:Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

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