Top 100 Quotes About Self Knowledge

#1. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#2. Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).

Dada Bhagwan

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#3. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.

Rumi

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#4. Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

Mark Slouka

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#5. I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

C. JoyBell C.

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#6. Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

William Hague

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#7. What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!

Steve Maraboli

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#8. What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

Marty Rubin

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#9. We obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us - a

John Cheever

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#10. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#11. In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

Jane Smiley

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#12. I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Henry David Thoreau

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#13. Under the weight of my growing self-knowledge, my self-image was sinking fast.

Dan Millman

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#14. There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

Immodesty Blaize

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#15. Everything is music for the born musician.

Romain Rolland

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#16. To know my soul is my greatest knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#17. Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Toni Servillo

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#18. I know everything except myself.

Francois Villon

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#19. How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

Mikhail Naimy

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#20. The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

C. JoyBell C.

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#21. A person with great knowledge is truly wealthy.

Eraldo Banovac

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#22. A silent tongue does not betray its owner

Sheik Ahmed Hassoun

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#23. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

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#24. I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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#25. Either melt by devotion the sense of separateness, or burn it by knowledge-for what is it that melts or burns? Only that which by its nature can be melted or burnt; namely the idea that something other than your Self exists. What will happen then? You come to know your Self.

Anandamayi Ma

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#26. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

Nathaniel Branden

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#27. We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.

Nirmala Srivastava

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#28. Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

Gian Kumar

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#29. Education in the form of knowledge and wisdom are only as powerful as how we use them in our daily lives.

Matthew Donnelly

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#30. If you don't have common sense, ask someone who does

Sonya Withrow

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#31. If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

Angelus Silesius

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#32. Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ... Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

Laurie Beth Jones

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#33. Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

Ramana Maharshi

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#34. The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

Ramana Maharshi

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#35. You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your "problem", whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.

Golda Poretsky

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#36. Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.

Nikki Rowe

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#37. I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Amy Sedaris

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#38. The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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#39. We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

Myles Munroe

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#40. The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#41. My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

Camille Paglia

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#42. You can not even roughly guess where you can reach in life if you pursue the path of self-education.

Deepak Burfiwala

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#43. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)

Tony Dovale

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#44. 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.

Douglas Hofstadter

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#45. Self-education is the greatest self-liberation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#46. Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to intuitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Aldous Huxley

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#47. All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Bruce Lee

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#48. Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Stefan Molyneux

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#49. [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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#50. I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Bruce Lee

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#51. Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

William Torrey Harris

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#52. You are God's design to decorate this world. You are a repertoire of wisdom and an encyclopedia of God's knowledge.

Ikechukwu Joseph

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#53. The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

John Redwood

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#54. To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Pascal Mercier

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#55. It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Joseph Conrad

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#56. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.

A.J. Darkholme

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#57. The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

J.C. Ryle

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#58. But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.

Susanna Tamaro

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#59. If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

George Lakoff

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#60. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

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#61. Why has no one come to pry me out of here?
- Cersei

George R R Martin

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#62. Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

Camille Paglia

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#63. Knowledge must then lead to education in self-control.

Pope John Paul II

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#64. Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.

Thomas Keating

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#65. Autonomy ... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

Thomas Szasz

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#66. Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

Pat Williams

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#67. An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion.

Luis Marques

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#68. First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.

Abhijit Naskar

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#69. Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

Ramakrishna

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#70. How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Franz Kafka

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#71. The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,

Plato

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#72. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Criss Jami

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#73. Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#74. Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person's capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#75. Begin to acquire knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#76. I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

Mark Slouka

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#77. After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Bruce Lee

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#78. Your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Anonymous

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#79. Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.

J.I. Packer

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#80. The knowledge of God's greatness is joy of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#81. Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

Irvin D. Yalom

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#82. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.

Clive Barker

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#83. The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one's kashays are gone, then he becomes the 'owner' of the whole universe.

Dada Bhagwan

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#84. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.

Debasish Mridha

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#85. Spiritual Intelligence is the Intuitive knowledge of the Self, others, situations and techniques to achieve the desired objectives of the world.

Awdhesh Singh

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#86. Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#87. There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Stefan Molyneux

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#88. Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.

Neel Burton

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#89. If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

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#90. There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley

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#91. Peace is not out there and no one can really give you peace. Most often than not you are at war with yourself. To find the peace create the inner calmness, tranquility and practice self love.

Debasish Mridha

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#92. The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

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#93. We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#94. What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

Seneca.

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#95. It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

Harold Bloom

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#96. Ignorance annihilates self.

Jason Barnett

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#97. That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, I won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions of being bothered ... a person who, so far as self-knowledge is concerned, is just a moron.

Aldous Huxley

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#98. Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

Oswald Chambers

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#99. As long as you SIT, you Stay In Trouble. Once you STAND, you Shift Toward A New Direction, take a STEP, and Start To Embrace Purpose, then WALK to Welcome Abundance, Love and Knowledge.

Niquenya D. Fulbright

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#100. Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

Shirley Maclaine

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