Quotes About Self-knowledge

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

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.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

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

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

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

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvation?but they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that results be quickly obtained.

I have a pretty good grip on who I am.

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

Human's life is a struggle between ignorance and illumination. Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

It's profoundly counter-intuitive for us to think of ourselves as mad. We seem so normal and mostly so good – to ourselves. It's everyone else who is out of step… And yet maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness. If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.