Self Knowledge Quotes - Page 11

• Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.

  Amadou Hampate Ba

  Writing, Men, Light

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• If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.

  Robert Trivers

  Strong, Communication, Animal

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• The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

  Daniel Bell

  Self, Intellectual, World

  Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”

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• Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

  John Fowles

  Self, Age, Adulthood

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• Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

  Albert Bandura

  Self, May, Tasks

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• People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera

  Albert Bandura

  Past, Self, Skills

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

  Tracy Morgan

  Mirrors, Self, Who I Am

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

  Mother Teresa

  Humility, Self, Giving

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• All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

  Bruce Lee

  Self

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• Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

  Steven J Lawson

  Self, Grace, Needs

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• You are surprised at your imperfections,--why? I should infer from that, that your self-knowledge is small. Surely you might rather be astonished that you do not fall into more frequent and more grievous faults, and thank God for His upholding grace.

  Jean Grou

  Fall, Self, Imperfection

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• That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Eye, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8238, Delphi Classics

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• Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Travel, Home, Knowledge

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• We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Real, Eye, Biblical

  G. C. Berkouwer (1962). “Man: The Image of God”, p.27, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Acceptance, Self

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• Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

  Karl Shapiro

  Men, Self, Insane

  Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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• By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

  Charles de Lint

  Self

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1996.

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• There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.

  Charles J. Shields

  Self, Fiction, Texture

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• To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Mean, Names

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.67, Penguin UK

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• I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Self, Darkness

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Determination, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Men, Self

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• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Art, Independent, Opportunity

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