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Quotes About Self-discovery

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
~ Shelley Winters
He who knows himself best esteems himself least.
~ H. G. Bohn
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'
~ Adyashanti
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
~ Thomas C Foster
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
~ Charles Tart
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.
~ Thubten Chodron
We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.
~ Asger Jorn
To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually
~ Malcolm X
The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
~ Francis Quarles
Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
~ Robert Genn
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
~ John Fowles
Who are we beyond the roles that we play?
~ Joan Anderson
When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.
~ Frederick Lenz
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
~ Rudolf Steiner
You must become like yourself.
~ Janet Morris
I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.
~ Gisele Bundchen
Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.
~ Christine Feehan, Dark Demon
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
~ Cynthia Ozick
We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.
~ Charlie Fletcher, Silvertongue
I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.
~ Sam Keen
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
~ Harold Bloom