Knowing Himself Quotes

#1. A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#2. Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

Thomas Merton

#3. Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Felix Schelling

#4. No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. A man should die for his own sins alone, he told himself, knowing that that would never be. Not even with God. It was too easy to kill, to knife, to send disease.

Shulamith Hareven

#6. So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Daniel Keyes

#7. The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.

Anthony Marais

#8. Zel so often put himself outside of where he wanted to be and then looked in dumbly through the window of his longing, hurt and beaten and knowing that he had hurt and beaten himself but still he did it, over and over.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others, knowing that he was not his own man? "So,

Daniel Wallace

#10. One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Jerome Bruner

#11. knowing that he himself looked so cowboylike to these Eastern people, in his best black Tony Lamas, a nice pair of Levi's, a pointed-collar shirt with string tie and a black Stetson, all under a sheepskin coat, his best coat.

Stephen Hunter

#12. Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.

Miguel De Unamuno

#13. I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part - which is more than enough to keep us busy.

Peter Enns

#14. Men have no excuse for not knowing about God because He has revealed Himself in man's conscience and in the physical world (Rom. 1:19, 20; 2:15).

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#15. And just as in life, if a man imagines himself on his deathbed and then works back through the years of his life, he will make better decisions along the way, knowing the end. Or at the very least, he"ll spend his time more wisely.

Adriana Trigiani

#16. Why did knowing grief himself not make him better at knowing how to help?

Lena Coakley

#17. ..Imam Ali [A]..
'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord

Mohammad Ali Shomali

#18. Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

Megan Whalen Turner

#19. Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

Ed Harris

#20. I consider every person an enemy until he has proven himself differently, and I find that in knowing my enemies, I can prepare against anything they might send against me.

R.A. Salvatore

#21. No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

George Sand

#22. He felt a fluttering inside his chest that he mistook for an air pocket - probably left from when he pushed himself through the cage. He had no way of knowing that the fluttering was a single beat from the fleeting memory of a heart.

Neal Shusterman

#23. The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered.

Donald Barthelme

#24. You can respect a man's rights or opinions without knowing the man at all. But you can only respect the man himself when you find something in him that's worthy of the word.

Gregory David Roberts

#25. The 'Memphis Avalanche' reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community; knowing that the law was powerless, in the actual condition of public sentiment, to protect him, he protected himself.

Mark Twain

#26. Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

Ann Brashares

#27. To be listened to is ... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating ... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

Robert C. Murphy

#28. Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

Anthony Trollope

#29. Thus we dare not conclude that because we learn about the Spirit we for that reason actually know Him. Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit himself.

A.W. Tozer

#30. He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind of girl who could make you think your life was not complete unless she was in it.

Adi Alsaid

#31. In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

John Calvin

#32. Always told me what he wanted and needed . . . how good he felt when I made love to him. He was holding himself back, denying me the satisfaction of knowing I pleased him.

Sylvia Day

#33. She had understood all that he had said, with no way of knowing what he meant. It was as though he himself existed here in this town in this state in translation, ambiguous, slightly wrong, too highly colored or wrongly nuanced. Within him was the original, which no one could read.

John Crowley

#34. He wished to cover her with his body, possess her-for if he could do that, he could pretend to himself that she was safe. Covering her so ... he might protect her. Or so he felt, even knowing how senseless the feeling was.

Diana Gabaldon

#35. Olivia said. Without knowing why, Eli found himself

Michael Phillip Cash

#36. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions.

A.W. Tozer

#37. A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

J.I. Packer

#38. The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#39. He was a chap like himself, with a unique pain; and yet there would be no knowing that if you passed him in the street, or sat opposite him in a cafe

Rachel Joyce

#40. A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

Penelope Gilliatt

#41. By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

William Trevor

#42. The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Fred Hoyle

#43. Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

Hyman Rickover

#44. Their leader wore a Nazi helmet and had renamed himself Heimlich in honor of the man who ran the SS, not knowing he'd confused the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choke victims and Heinrich Himmler.

William Kotzwinkle

#45. The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.

Mike Sager

#46. It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.

Carson McCullers

#47. Most men, it seemed to them, went through life never really knowing themselves. A man might consider himself noble or brave or just, they believed, but until he was truly tested it would always be mere opinion.

Robert Kurson

#48. say to himself: 'As I was drawing the bow, I travelled a long road. Now I release this arrow knowing that I took the necessary risks and gave of my best.

Paulo Coelho

#49. Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

Clifford D. Simak

#50. A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it, but he soon feels the weight of any other object. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a man cannot forget- but not himself.

Beryl Bainbridge

#51. Whereas Hunt recommended universal charity, Keats, feeling himself 'in a Mist', relied on a knowing passivity: 'Men should bear with each other - there lives not the Man who may not be cut up, aye hashed to pieces on his weakest side'.

Nicholas Roe

#52. Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing.

David Berg

#53. The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.

Billy Graham

#54. A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Irenaeus Of Lyons

#55. To fatten a pig, a farmer will feed him well. The pig must think his life a paradise, never knowing he gorges himself so that he will be fatter for the knife later on.

David Anthony Durham

#56. God, please touch it. It hurts so bad," he growled, freeing himself from his pants. "I've been going mad every morning, knowing you were up here all naked and soft. I've got to have you now, baby. Let me have you or I'm going to lose my mind. I can't think. I can't think.

Tessa Bailey

#57. He didn't know if he was more furious with his brother, for knowing precisely how to loop the wire around his neck, or with himself, for his inability to duck out of the noose.

Maggie Stiefvater

#58. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--"

~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

#59. Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.

Mark Lawrence

#60. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself.

Francis Chan

#61. Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the perform-ance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

Jean Cocteau

#62. God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

Thomas F. Torrance

#63. If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Herodotus

#64. What was he thinking falling in love with her again, opening himself to another world of hurt when she left - knowing she would leave? She was a lawyer, working in the big city, used to fancy things, a fancy life. She didn't fit in his world anymore.

Leah Braemel

#65. I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a great master in the very science of human nature, which he pretends to explain, or very knowing in what is naturally satisfactory to the mind of man.

David Hume

#66. Rakitin was dishonest and was decidedly unaware of it; that, on the contrary, knowing that he wouldn't steal money from the table, he ultimately considered himself a man of the highest integrity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#67. I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.

Dick Van Arsdale

#68. As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.

Spencer Johnson

#69. I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#70. Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Jonathan Swift

#71. The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

Aristotle.

#72. When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

John Milton

#73. The question is," Harry whispered, trying desperately to joke, "whether it's better to be dead from the neck up or the neck down," and the doctor smiled, knowing Harry was protecting himself with his sense of irony.

Morley Callaghan

#74. When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.

Jean Rhys

#75. As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done ...

Peprah Boasiako

#76. We know you weren't in the house', he said, starting up again, cranking himself with the handle. They always say 'We', 'We', never 'I' 'I' - as if they feel braver and righter knowing there's a lot of them against only one.

Alan Sillitoe

#77. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Charles Dickens

#78. A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#79. My dad was amazing. He raised five boys. All by himself. Without the rest of us knowing.

Anthony Jeselnik