Self Knowledge Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Crazy, Thinking, Self

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• In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself.

  Jill Purce

  Trying, Sound, Chanting

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• You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

  Francine Prose

  Want, Aim, Ifs

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• There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Self, Historical, Knows

  "Lucinde and the Fragments" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by P. Firchow, (§ 139), 1991.

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• I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Knowing, Mind

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• Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

  David Mamet

  Player, Gambling, Self

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Self, Individual

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.

  Rakim

  Christian, Mom, Reading

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I grew up in them streets, like everyone else
  but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

  KRS-One

  Self, Drug, Grew Up

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• Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Self, Creative

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “On Nature and the Environment”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Art, Self, Use

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.

  Mayim Bialik

  Mom, Pregnancy, Book

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• In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

  Jean Piaget

  Self, World, Contact

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• I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Knowing, People, Scary

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• Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.

  Neel Burton

  Thinking, Self, Reflecting Upon

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Mar 05, 2013

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• First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Self, America, People

  Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.39, Secretarius MEMPS Publications

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• Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Technology, Self

  Shirley Maclaine (2010). “Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation”, p.37, Bantam

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• In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Ignorance, Opposites

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Action, Contemplation

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• Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Dream, Sex

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Self, Way, Events

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

  Ouida

  Self, Common, Mets

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• I know everything except myself.

  Francois Villon

  Knowledge, Knows

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• Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

  William Matthews

  Teacher, Men, Lakes

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• Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Strong, Kindness

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