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Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory. -- Franz Grillparzer
Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing. -- Sameh Elsayed
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. -- Michael Novak
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. -- Albert Camus
Life is a constant challenge to know oneself. -- Rajneesh
To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away. -- Veronique Vienne
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself. -- Laozi
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. -- Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. -- Adi Shankara
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. -- Vincent Van Gogh
One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. -- Carl Jung
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. -- Blaise Pascal
To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom. -- Pierre Hadot
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself. -- Franz Grillparzer
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related. -- Bruce Lee
To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it. -- Sherman Paul
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. -- John W. Gardner
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects. -- Saint Basil
Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion. -- Bruce Lee
What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free. -- Ann Bridge
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. -- Kevyn Aucoin
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. -- Oscar Wilde
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. -- Ramana Maharshi
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne -- Laurie Stevens
Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself. -- Wayne Dyer
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. -- Kevyn Aucoin
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. -- Michel de Montaigne
Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student. -- Hyman Bass
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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