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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. -- Jean Piaget
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. -- James Mark Baldwin
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. -- Abdullah Ibrahim
Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self. -- Shirley MacLaine
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. -- John Calvin
True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self. -- Immortal Technique
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality. -- Muhammad Ali
Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self. -- Nelly
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self. -- John Fowles
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. -- Charles de Lint
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience. -- J. C. Ryle
Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted. -- Steven J Lawson
I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self -- KRS-One
I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me. -- Tracy Morgan
In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon. -- Dov Davidoff
Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility -- Mother Teresa
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. -- Mason Cooley
I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. -- Alice Walker
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. -- Aldous Huxley
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. -- Ramana Maharshi
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. -- Marilyn French
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. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. -- Wislawa Szymborska
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. -- Ramakrishna
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. -- Franz Kafka
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again. -- Toni Servillo
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character. -- Ralph Thomas Walker
That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950. -- Kenneth Arrow
Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths. -- Virginia Postrel
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. -- Khalil Gibran
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Self-knowledge makes me happy. -- Gretchen Rubin
All knowledge is self-reflective. -- Jerry Uelsmann
Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge. -- Bruce Lee
Self knowledge is always bad news. -- John Barth
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge, -- Plato
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge. -- Bruce Lee
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! -- William Hague
After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge. -- Bruce Lee
The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge. -- J. C. Ryle
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. -- Jane Austen
Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known. -- Laozi
Zen is all about self-study/knowledge and self-help! -- Mika
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge. -- Mirra Komarovsky
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. -- John Taylor Gatto
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge. -- Bruce Lee
Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement. -- Baltasar Gracian
Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable. -- Deepak Chopra
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. -- George Santayana
Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery. -- Robin Sharma
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge. -- Thomas C Foster
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. -- F. H. Bradley
Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge. -- David Mamet
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. -- F. H. Bradley
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. -- Elizabeth Edwards
The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. -- Nate Silver
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. -- Paulo Coelho
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. -- K. Pattabhi Jois
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves. -- Russ Roberts
Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. -- Leon Surmelian
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. -- Karl Shapiro
The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge -- Laozi
Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self. -- Tammy Louise Wilkins
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. -- Anais Nin
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives -- Vernon Howard
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure. -- Peggy Orenstein
Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge. -- Napoleon Hill
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. -- John Calvin
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. -- Immanuel Kant
A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives. -- Jim Rohn
You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self. -- Christine McCormick Day
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. -- Jean Paul
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way. -- Sam Keen
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. -- Robin McKinley
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge -- Vivian Gornick
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. -- Michael Sandel
We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone. -- Bryant McGill
We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone. -- Bryant McGill
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge -- Albert Bandura
Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. -- Frederick Lenz
I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered. -- Gisele Bundchen
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. -- Okakura Kakuz?
I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common." -- Ouida
There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge . -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. -- Mirra Komarovsky
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. -- Ouida
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around. -- Richard Holbrooke
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. -- Khalil Gibran
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being. -- Lord Acton
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. -- Edward Alsworth Ross
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. -- Jose Marti
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. -- Irina Bokova
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. -- Barry Long
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. -- Aldous Huxley
Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son. -- William Torrey Harris
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. -- Novalis
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. -- Joseph Conrad
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. -- Nirmala Srivastava
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. -- Joseph Conrad
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean. -- John de Ruiter

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