Self Knowledge Quotes - Page 10

• Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Knowledge, Given

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", CXX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

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• Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

  George Santayana

  Confidence, Knowledge, Self

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• Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

  Colleen McCullough

  Song, Pain, Heart

  Colleen McCullough (1977). “The Thorn Birds”

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• Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to "learn." What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying "Know thyself."

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Matter, Study

  "All and Everything: Views from the Real World". Book by G. I. Gurdjieff, 1973.

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• Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Self, Evaluation

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• Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

  John Calvin

  Self, Two, Ties

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

  Vivian Gornick

  Pain, Mean, Self

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• He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.

  Walter Benjamin

  Real, Past, Men

  "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".

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• In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

  Ellen Langer

  Lying, Learning, Knowledge

  Ellen J. Langer (2007). “On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity”, p.131, Ballantine Books

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• It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little . . . We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work . . . in order to free their hold.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Thinking, Order, Differences

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• Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

  Jane Austen

  Maturity, Self, Growth

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• The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

  Carl Sagan

  Travel, Stars, Distance

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.355, Ballantine Books

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• [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

  Flannery O'Connor

  Humility, Self, Way

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.35, Macmillan

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• All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

  Bruce Lee

  Self

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• History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mean, Men, Self

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• The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

  Dov Davidoff

  Knowledge, Self, Joints

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• Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

  Alice Walker

  Self, Way, Enlightened

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• Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

  RZA

  Self, Age, Figures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

  Meher Baba

  Self, Important, Males

  Meher Baba (1971). “Meher Baba on the Problem of Sex & the Sanctity of Married Life: With a Warning on the Means of Birth Control”

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• What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

  Kim Cattrall

  Sexy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

  RZA

  Self, Knowing, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

  Tracy Morgan

  Mistake, Serious Person, Mirrors

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• We bless and curse ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Consciousness, Bless

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.123, Penguin

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• 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

  Jesus, Creativity, Self

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