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.
Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Only the shallow know themselves.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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.
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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