Knowledge Quotes - Page 3

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

To understand is to forgive even oneself.

Alexander Chase

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.

Billie Jean King

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Plato

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

Jacqueline Bisset

Follow your interests get the best available education and training set your sights high be persistent be flexible keep your options open accept help when offered and be prepared to help others.

Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Queen Elizabeth II

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Madeleine L'Engle

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

Cynthia Propper Seton

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their frailties and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

Sydney J. Harris

If I could know me I could know the universe.

Shirley Maclaine

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.

Margaret Chase Smith

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Arthur Davison Ficke

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

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

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

James Russell Lowell

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

Josi Ortega y Gasset

My closest relation is myself.

Terence

I am better than my reputation.

Friedrich von Schiller

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

Louis Kronenberger

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

Paul Wunderlich

Every man shall bear his own burden.

Bible

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Goethe

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Bernard Lonergan

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

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

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

Herman Melville

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

Ernest Hemingway

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

William Hale White

When three people call you an ass put on a bridle.

Spanish Proverb

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

Bernard Berenson

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

Kajetan von Schlaggenberg

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

Alfred

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

Victoria

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Rollo May

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

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