Quotes About Self-knowledge

Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

What's really transformative is our willingness to keep going, our openness to possibility, our patience, our effort, our humor, our growing self-knowledge, and the strength that we gain as we keep going.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

She lived too close to despair to have any strength left for self-knowledge. She might have been able to acknowledge herself unloved but to know herself unloving was beyond her strength.

Revolutionär ohne Mut, abenteuerlustig ohne die Fähigkeit, Unbequemlichkeiten zu ertragen — Egoist ohne Rücksichtslosigkeit - und endlich ein Künstler ohne Fleiß - ein Selbstkenner ohne Tendenz zur Besserung — ein Verächter des allgemeinen Urteils mit der kleinlichsten Empfindlichkeit

All I would claim is that those who in the search for truth start from consciousness as a seat of self-knowledge with interests and responsibilities not confined to the material plane, are just as much facing the hard facts of experience as those who start from consciousness as a device for reading the indications of spectroscopes and micrometers.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Self-knowledge is the foundation of real success.

The remedy against the Sin of Pride. Now since it is so that you have understood what is Pride, and which are the kinds of it, and from whence Pride arises and springs, you shall understand what is the remedy against the Sin of Pride, and that is humility, or meekness. That is a virtue through which a man has true knowledge of himself, and holds himself to be of no import or esteem, considering always his frailty.

The significance of that 'absolute commandment', know thyself — whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance — is not to promote mere self-knowledge in respect of the particular capacities, character, propensities, and foibles of the single self. The knowledge it commands means that of man's genuine reality — of what is essentially and ultimately true and real — of spirit as the true and essential bein

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

It makes no sense to lack self-knowledge while understanding those around you.

Si on trouve la plénitude de la joie dans la pensée que Dieu est, il faut trouver la même plénitude dans la connaissance que soi-même on n'est pas, car c'est la même pensée. Et cette connaissance n'est étendue à la sensibilité que par la souffrance et la mort.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

It is necessary to understand who you are

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of eminence. However, there is nothing quite like an anomaly to suck attention away from the droning census records. A suicide hinted at emotion and thought. A closet door was flung open and daylight flooded a skeleton.

Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon—this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing.

self-knowledge. You can't be productive as a creator if you're not paying attention to your own behavior and cultivating the unique wonder in this universe that is you.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

podemos decir que la maduración de la personalidad consiste en lograr un equilibrio entre los factores disposicionales y vivenciales, con el fin de alcanzar grados sucesivos de libertad, independencia, conocimiento de uno mismo y de la realidad, así como en elaborar un proyecto de vida bajo los auspicios de la razón y la voluntad.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Knowledge of self ought to be the great project of our lives. Knowing ourselves we will know others. Only by knowing ourselves can we begin to undo the madness we unleash on the world in our wars, our destruction of the environment, our divisions, our desire to dominate others, the poverty we create and exploit. Only through self-knowledge can we reverse the damage we do with all the worldly knowledge we have, which has been only a higher ignorance.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.