Best self & self-knowledge Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.”

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Author:Nelly

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

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

Source: Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes

“We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!”

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Book:Man: The Image of God

Source: Man: The Image of God

“Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.”

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Author:Clarice Lispector

“Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.”

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Author:Marilyn French

“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.”

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Author:Charles J. Shields

“Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.”

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Book:Magic of Believing Collection

Source: Magic of Believing Collection

“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.”

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Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“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.”

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Book:On the Truth of the Catholic Faith. Summa Contra Gentiles

Source: On the Truth of the Catholic Faith. Summa Contra Gentiles

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.”

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Book:How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

Source: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

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

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Author:Charles de Lint

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

“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.”

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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

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