Quotes About Self-knowledge

By gaining self-knowledge we gain the ability to know when to press hard and when to pull back. Self-knowledge informs us of our limits.

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

The inner and hidden part of this wisdom is nothing else than knowing oneself thoroughly, and therefore hating oneself.

Self-knowledge is the foundation of a practical spirituality, a spirituality that ripples outward from the self into the world.

There is a self-knowledge that is not knowledge and is not self-consciousness; there is a presence of the past that is not in fact given in it, but also not what I will in the instant; and there is a doing that is not the fiat of a closed signification.

her essential goodness, telling her that "self-knowledge is the foundation of Religion," not self-hatred.

Gaining the sense of immortality or eternal life will make you appear like a god, prophet or saint before those who lack self knowledge.

Gautama Buddha realized that learning from others will never make him grow. Only self-knowledge matters. So, he decided to go beyond books and sought out nature as the best teacher.

Self-knowledge begins when one realizes that there are paradoxes in all philosophical teaching. Whether it's religion or science, this is the best time to research it on your own, rather than sitting on the books all day.

He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge.

Merely assuaging fears and satisfying desires will not remove this sense of emptiness you are trying to escape from; only self-knowledge can help you.

Worship and meditate on your consciousness, the same consciousness which is in all living beings, indicated by the five sense organs and three gunas which supports your living and presence. Continue doing your activities; they will carry on spontaneously, but give attention to the knowledge that you are. Hold your beingness. Self-knowledge will tell you everything you need to know.

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see I have a chance to gain self knowledge and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject. In fact, knowing my students and my subject depends heavily on self knowledge.

Everyone knows a man's reputation except the man himself.

Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his surface alone. The result is that the physical sense-reactions do not dominate his outlook wholly, as they do an animal's. Mind begins to rule them. This leads more and more to self-control, self-knowledge, and self-pacification.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.