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  • Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. -- Andre Gide
  • This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. -- Aleister Crowley
  • Know Thyself -- Oracle of Delphos
  • A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them? -- Epictetus
  • This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself. -- Juvenal
  • To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom. -- Socrates
  • Know thyself because what else is there to know? -- Sarah Connor
  • One has to know the size of one's stomach. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God. -- Pythagoras
  • Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. -- Juvenal
  • Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.' -- Menander
  • My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -- Socrates
  • There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. -- Plutarch
  • You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. -- Don DeLillo
  • Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are. -- Iyanla Vanzant
  • One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself. -- Steven Pinker
  • The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer. -- Adam Smith
  • Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. -- Sivananda
  • All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self. -- Mark Victor Hansen
  • It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. -- George Eliot
  • In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos -- Timothy Leary
  • Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate. -- Beth Comstock
  • You must seek to know thyself. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Do thine own work, and know thyself. -- Plato
  • Know thyself, and thou shalt know God. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Know thyself; this is the great object. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe. -- Pythagoras
  • Now thyself is more important than "Know thyself. -- Mel Brooks
  • To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment. -- L. Frank Baum
  • Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] -- Solon
  • Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. -- Robert Breault
  • Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks. -- Robert Breault
  • Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true. -- Adam Rodriguez
  • The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner. -- Johnny Hunt
  • Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God. -- John Ruskin
  • Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts. -- RuPaul
  • To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn! -- Friedrich Schiller
  • History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. -- Johann Gustav Droysen
  • Knowing thyself. Know that your life could be define by your daily actions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. -- Ralph Blum
  • Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -- Matthew Arnold
  • I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. -- Alexander Pope
  • Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. -- Menander
  • In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others." -- Menander
  • And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf. -- David Clement-Davies
  • The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God. -- Francis Quarles
  • I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window. -- James Richardson
  • Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it. -- Karl A. Menninger
  • Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? -- Jules Verne
  • Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness. -- Akhenaton
  • A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way. -- Archibald Marwizi
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