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Quotes About Introspection

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
~ Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
He who knows himself best esteems himself least.
~ H. G. Bohn
A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
~ Mason Cooley
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
~ Charles Baudelaire
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.
~ Claudia Gray
Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All our knowledge begins with the senses...
~ Immanuel Kant
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'
~ Adyashanti
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
~ Thomas C Foster
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.
~ Golda Meir
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
~ Charles Tart
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
~ F. H. Bradley
The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.
~ Dalai Lama
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
~ Dante Alighieri
The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge
~ Laozi
I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.
~ Vannoccio Biringuccio
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.
~ Thubten Chodron