Self-knowledge Quotes

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

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.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

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.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.