Knowledge Quotes - Page 4

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Charlotte Cushman

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

Frank J. Giblin

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Graham Sutherland

I am I plus my circumstances.

Josi Ortega y Gasset

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Anonymous

If I am not for myself who will be?

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

Ben Sweet

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham J. Heschel

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Phaedrus

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

G. C. Lichtenberg

If you can't bite don't show your teeth.

Know him know me.

Dizzy Gillespie

No man does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

Rainer Maria Rilke

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

George Santayana

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Proverbs

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

François Rabelais

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

Socrates

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble it's what we know that ain't so.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge is power.

Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.

Henry David Thoreau

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.

Anonymous

I take all knowledge to be my province.

Sir Francis Bacon

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

For knowledge too is itself a power.

Sir Francis Bacon

The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.

Diogenes

He that increaseth knowledge increascth sorrow.

Bible

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One cannot know everything.

Horace

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

He who knows others is learned He who knows himself is wise.

Lao-Tsze

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