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• Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

  Akhenaton

  Pride, Evil, Links

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• It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Acceptance, Self

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.32

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• Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Knowing God, Knows, Thyself

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• Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.

  Mel Brooks

  Crazy, Future, Dark

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• One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

  Steven Pinker

  Tools, Psychologist, Perks

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• Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

  Robert Breault

  Acquaintance, Knows, Thyself

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• Know thyself.
  [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

  Solon

  Knowledge, Greek, Knows

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• Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

  RuPaul

  Love You, Knows, Love Yourself

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• History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

  Johann Gustav Droysen

  Self, Humanity, Consciousness

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• Know thyself; this is the great object.

  Seneca the Younger

  Objects, Knows, Self-examination

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• Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.

  Mel Brooks

  Important, Knows, Thyself

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• Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

  Ralph Blum

  Acceptance, Self, Balance

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• Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Personal Knowledge, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.66

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• A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Mind, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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• All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Real, Destiny, Dna

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• Know thyself because what else is there to know?

  Sarah Connor

  Knows, Thyself

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• Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Church, Said, Knows

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.83

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• A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Mean, Instinct, Wells

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• In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

  Menander

  People, Wells, Knows

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• To know thyself--in others self-concern;
  Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Self, Concern, Knows

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• Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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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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