Knowing Myself Quotes

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Discovery, Self

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• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Men, Psychology

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Occupy Yourself, Literature

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Heart, Knowing

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Running, Educational, Teaching

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Relationships To Oneself To Others To the World To Oneself, To Others, To the World”, p.16, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

  John Milton

  Writing, Hands, Knowing

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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• The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Football, Knowing, Losing

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• I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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