Self Knowledge Quotes

Self Knowledge Quote of the day

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

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

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

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

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

You only grow when you are alone.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

No man does anything from a single motive.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I am I plus my circumstances.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Everything is music for the born musician.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

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

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.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

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

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

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

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

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.