Quotes About Self-knowledge

No one really knows about you better than your own shadow.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

No estoy distante de definir la sabiduría como el conocimiento de sí mismo, y de hecho soy de la misma opinión del que colocó en el templo de Delfos una inscripción de este género: «Conócete a ti mismo».

En esa parte del alma, verdaderamente divina, es donde es preciso mirarse, y contemplar allí todo lo divino, es decir, Dios y la sabiduría, para conocerse a sí mismo perfectamente.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

The main freedom involved in using hormonal birth control is freedom from thinking about-and ultimately facing-our reproductive power. This "freedom" essentially results in an ignorance of our bodies which costs us, individually and collectively, dear, dear, dearly. We cannot love ourselves if we do not know ourselves. There is bliss, but no freedom, in ignorance.

Poi, invece, seppi ch'essa neppur sapeva come fosse fatta la salute. La salute non analizza se stessa e neppur si guarda nello specchio. Solo noi malati sappiamo qualche cosa di noi stessi.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

Zeitgeist is a German word that means "spirit of the age."  The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the thought of Socrates), while that of the Middle Ages and Victorianism was hierarchy (Dante) and progress (Tennyson), respectively.  As for the darker zeitgeist of modernism, marked by relativism and subjectivism, though Lewis did not embody it, he understood it better than many of its most ardent supporters.

we obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

I know my limitations; I know what I can do and what I can't.

How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body?

People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.

It seems to me that the only true Christians were the Gnostics, who believe in self-knowledge, i.e. becoming Christ themselves, reaching the Christ within, the light is the truth. Turn on the light. All the better to see you with, my dear.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

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

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

To be the best you can be, is to know the person in the mirror better than you think you know everyone else.