Quotes About Knowing Thyself

#1. The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

Antonio Gramsci

#2. Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Galileo Galilei

#3. Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Socrates

#4. Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself.

Luis Marques

#5. I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Tony Blair

#6. We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#7. If there's one thing you should know about dealing with programmers is do not distract them. Wait for them to come to you. Just put your request in the queue. Never expect a programmer to do something immediately.

Anonymous

#8. But I can't afford not to try. I can't be ranked last.

Veronica Roth

#9. Love was not a quantifiable substance. There was always more of it somewhere, and even after one love had been lost, it was by no means impossible to find another.

Paul Auster

#10. We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. I'm told I'm an incredible flirt because I don't know I'm doing it. I don't want to even analyse it, but I seduce people, apparently; I suck them in.

Suzi Quatro

#12. I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

Terrell Owens

#13. Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

John Ruskin

#14. In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

Tom Tancredo

#15. ...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn't a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn't a goal; it's a road.

Garon Whited

#16. I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Brigitte Bardot

#17. In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we've lived with the longest, we still don't know very well - ourselves.

Charles F. Glassman

#18. Some grow very attached to a modern diversion known as the 'Crossword Puzzle.' We've had several come

Brandon Sanderson

#19. True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#20. People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

Marco Rubio

#21. Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

Munia Khan

#22. A change is always nice.

Euripides

#23. I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.

Gordon Ramsay

#24. Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#25. Plague? the guard interrupted.

Susan Dennard

#26. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

Aleister Crowley