Quotes About Self-knowledge

No one knows a man better than himself.

I dont care who you are I know who I am

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

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.

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

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

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

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

The willfully ignorant are wont to follow this inclination that leads back to the animal they were but can no longer be, because it allows escape from the trials of self-knowledge and the demands of discrimination. Not wanting to know is the most powerful and destructive of forces, ultimately resulting in that self-indulgent cowardice that alone makes it possible for people to allow and participate in all the injustices and crimes of the world.

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

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

if you wish to obey the old adage and know thyself, you should not waste your time on philosophy, meditation or psychoanalysis, but rather you should systematically collect biometric data and allow algorithms to analyse them for you and tell you who you are and what you should do. The movement's motto is 'Self-knowledge through numbers'.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge