Know Yourself Quotes - Page 14

• Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

  George MacDonald

  Wise, Eye, Fool

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.10035, Delphi Classics

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• I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.

  Jeremy London

  Thinking, Married, Should

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• The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

  RZA

  Self, Important, Knowing God

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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

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• Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  Samantha Morton

  Book, Self, People

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• Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Brother, Enemy, Doe

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 330, 1991.

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• I think the most clear, direct way to empowerment is to really know yourself and to really use your voice and to not be afraid of other people's reactions.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

  Donald Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Knowing, Anxiety

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

  J. K. Rowling

  Positive, Adversity, Our Relationship

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