Knowledge Quotes - Page 2

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Amy Tan

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Cicero

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are the signposts are there waiting for us to translate them.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

Frances Partridge

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions rages can one hope to understand a little ... oh I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.

Françoise Sagan

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Flannery O'Connor

We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Sylvia Pankhurst

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Mary McLeod Bethune

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

Muriel Rukeyser

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

G.K. Chesterton

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Jean de La Fontaine

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.

Robert W. Service

I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.

Catherine the Great

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Joshua L. Liebman

To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings they gradually begin to seem mild harmless rather engaging little things not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Margaret Halsey

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

Giacomo Leopardi

As simple as it sounds we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Mary Lou Retton

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.

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.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

Elizabeth Bowen

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

Spanish Proverb

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

Agatha Christie

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Charlotte P. Gilman

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

Norvin G. McGranahan

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

Thomas à Kempis

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

Saint Bartholomew

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Georges Gurdjieff

Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision action and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help. ... We find that bit by bit we can discard the old life-the one that did not work-for a new life that can and does work under conditions whatever.

Anonymous

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Thales

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.

We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth.

Carl Jung

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

I knew what my job was it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

Diana

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

Teresa of Avila.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

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