Self Knowledge Quotes

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Rivers, Achievement

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Self, Self Improvement, Improvement

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

  F. H. Bradley

  Knowledge, Acceptance, Self

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 8, 1930.

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• The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

  Laozi

  Real, Self, Keys

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• Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Self, Way, Hell

  "The Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, Ak 6:441, 1797.

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• The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Understanding, Important

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• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Acceptance

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Self, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World”, p.50, Krishnamurti Foundation America via PublishDrive

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Wisdom, Self

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• There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Acceptance, Self, Jewels

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• Freedom is knowing who you really are.

  Bill Vaughan

  Freedom, Knowing

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• I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

  Franz Kafka

  Depression, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Moving, Thinking

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• Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

  Marilyn French

  Fear, Self, House

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• I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Understanding, Want, Superficial

  Journal, 1922

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• Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Self, Two

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Happiness, Real, Self

  Ramana (Maharshi.), Paul Brunton, Mungala Venkataramiah (1984). “Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi”

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• I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Encouraging, Want, Becoming

  Journal, 1922

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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