Self Knowledge Quotes - Page 7

• By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

  Charles de Lint

  Self

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1996.

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• Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge.
  We like to fool ourselves.

  Russ Roberts

  Self, Comforting, Deception

  Russ Roberts (2014). “How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness”, p.31, Penguin

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• Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Ignorance, Self

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Acceptance, Self

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Reading, Self

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• 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

  Likes, Show Me, Sensible

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

  Karl Shapiro

  Men, Self, Insane

  Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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• In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Stress, Self

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• We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Humility

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• Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

  James Jeans

  Knowledge, Science, Jeans

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.126, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Book, Knowledge, Science

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

  Anne Frank

  Wisdom, Strong, Integrity

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

  Leon Surmelian

  Character, Self, Human Nature

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• 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.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, Thinking, Keys

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• The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Self, Suffering

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• Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Men, Light

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.247

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• It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Dwarves, Discovery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.203

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• When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Intelligent, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.74, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

  John Calvin

  Self, Knowledge Of God

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• Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

  John Calvin

  Self, Two, Ties

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mirrors, Self, Matter

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 6, p. 281, 1955 - 1975.

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• Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Ignorance, Self, Able

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Strong, Love You, Self

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• Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Knowledge, Men, Difficult

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