Self Knowledge Quotes - Page 7

• There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Self, Historical, Knows

  "Lucinde and the Fragments" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by P. Firchow, (§ 139), 1991.

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• Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Action, Contemplation

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• Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

  William Matthews

  Teacher, Men, Lakes

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• Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Strong, Kindness

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• I know everything except myself.

  Francois Villon

  Knowledge, Knows

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• I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.

  Mayim Bialik

  Mom, Pregnancy, Book

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• My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.

  James Ellroy

  Moving, Book, Sacrifice

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Ignorance, Opposites

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Dream, Sex

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.

  Rakim

  Christian, Mom, Reading

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Knowing, Mind

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• All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Art, Self, Use

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

  David Mamet

  Player, Gambling, Self

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

  Immodesty Blaize

  Letting Go, Self, Asking

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• Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Self, Individual

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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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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• I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Knowing, People, Scary

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• You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

  Francine Prose

  Want, Aim, Ifs

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• In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself.

  Jill Purce

  Trying, Sound, Chanting

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• I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Crazy, Thinking, Self

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• The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Self, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

  Jean Piaget

  Self, World, Contact

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• Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Lying, Moon

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• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Self, Perfect

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1957). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith. Summa Contra Gentiles”

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