Self Knowledge Quotes - Page 5

• 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, Order

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• The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Cover Ups, Denial

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.15, Open Court Publishing

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• 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

  Self, Cookies, Enough

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• The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Self, Behavior

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• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Elude Us, Self

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Self, Shadow

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.73, McClure, Phillips & Company

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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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• Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Self, Mastery

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• Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

  Michael Sandel

  Self, Innocence, Lost

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• Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any church, to any God. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self knowledge. And the miracle is, if you can fulfill this responsibility, you will be able to fulfill many other responsibilities without any effort. The moment you come to your own being, a revolution happens in your vision. Your whole outlook about life goes through a radical change. You start feeling new responsibilities--not as some thing to be done, not as a duty to be fulfilled, but as a joy to do.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Self

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• For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Stars, Memories, Reality

  "Altered Carbon". Book by Richard Morgan, 2002.

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• Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

  Joan Anderson

  Play, Roles

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• The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.

  Mirra Komarovsky

  Self, Elusive

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• Self-knowledge makes me happy.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Self, Make Me Happy

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• True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

  Immortal Technique

  Self, Wealth, True Wealth

  Twitter post from Sep 6, 2014

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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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• Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

  Sebastian Coe

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• ... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Moving, Self, Desire

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.236, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

  Novalis

  Knowledge, Men, Self

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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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• True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

  J. C. Ryle

  Self, Practice, Heaven

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• I grew up in them streets, like everyone else
  but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

  KRS-One

  Self, Drug, Grew Up

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• Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Self, Creative

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “On Nature and the Environment”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fighting, Self, Guarantees

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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