Knowing Oneself Quotes

“You religious men who boast so much that you live on charity including what the poor manage to scrape together out of their meagre income - how can you justify your actions? How can your moral conscience be clear when you acknowledge that in no way do you contribute to the society that is maintaining you, day after day? In your self complacent conceit, you denigrate and harshly condemn, those who, with their sweat and hard work, provide you with a life fit for a king. What is the reason you spend your lives living comfortably in some ashram or isolated monastery when life only makes sense if it is experienced with your fellow brothers and sisters by showing compassion to them? It is easy and simple enough to spend your lives meditating in the Himalayas being irritated by nothing and no one if not the occasional goat, rather than placing yourselves in the midst of your fellow men and living an ordinary life of toil as they do. Do not delude yourselves, because what you refer to as a state of internal peace represents nothing but the personal satisfaction of the conscious ego that is admiring and adoring itself..”
― Anton Sammut, The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78

“Knowing your weakness, is a strength”
― Dr Toyin Omofoye

“The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not "I know who I am", but rather "I know who I'm not". Process of elimination... Knowing who we are is hard. Eliminate who we're not first, and we'll find ourselves where we need to be.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“Without silence, we can neither know ourselves, another, or the depth of anything beautiful. We learn how to take silence into the noise.”
― Donna Goddard, Pittown

“People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard

“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“And when I first heard these things, the words were like nails being driven into my head. That day in the Temple, when I first saw God's glory shining before me in terrible majesty and light, all I could see was my own unworthiness. You see, I have come to know about light and darkness. How sometimes they can be the same thing. For the greatest light of all, the light of the glorious majesty of God, if you see it, you will be blinded, plunged into darkness, and then you will see yourself as you really are.”
― Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas

“Without suffering there is no knowing of the soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To be humble is to be grounded in knowing who you are. It implies the responsibility to become what you were meant to become—to grow, to reach, to fully bloom as high and strong and grand as you were created to. It is not honorable for a tree to wilt and shrink and disappear. It’s not honorable for a woman to, either.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Untamed

“One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one's life, and nothing is more proper.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Set yourself free
not to harm any
soul.
But to feel your
soul.”
― Jinia M, A Lift In Life

“The true proof of what you know is in your action. If you claim you know but your knowing keeps slipping off the sleeves of action, you don't know yet. If you truly know something there will be a medal of action/freedom.”
― Seun Ayilara

“Knowing oneself is the hardest thing of all – knowing, that is, and accepting.”
― Yasmine Millett, The Erotic Notebooks

“It is only by learning new things and by keeping in touch with old things will you know you more than you’ve ever known yourself.”
― VKBoy

“If whatever I write hurts you, Congrats, you have reached an awesome level of meaning and understanding else if whatever I write irritates you, All the Best, you are yet to reach a primary level of knowing and meaning”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Every man should know his Maker.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing,"

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. Who knows how these cherished beliefs became certainties with us, and whether some secret wish did not furtively beget them, clothing desire in the dress of thought?

There is no philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself.

Gnothi seauton, said Socrates: Know thyself.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“We become Assets to those around us when we RESPOND to what GOD wants to do with all our lives. Also, when we are ready to look beyond our weaknesses and ABSOLUTELY DEPEND on the STRENGTH of the LORD.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Inner voice is embodiment of your intellectual acuity and experiences of life.There is no modus operandi to turn your inner voice to success or disaster.Keep igniting your cognitive ability, inner voice will translate into reality.”
― RamkrishnaGuru

“If you are reading that everyone else is reading than you are knowing which everyone knows.”
― Murakami

“Peel yourself layer by layer. There is an absolute earth shattering magnificent person waiting to be discovered.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Until you know yourself, all that you know is useless, because your life will lack direction.”
― Geoffrey Ocaya

“Deal with the people as how much they know you and value you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“If one knows, one cares; if one does not care, one does not know.”
― Esther Lightcap Meek

“We live in the world, but we are not of it. Our consciousness cannot have an indecisive foot in both worlds. It must know where we really reside. Make no mistake; one of those worlds will carry our home address and whichever one it is will determine our life. 
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― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“Let’s make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves. And yet it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are.”
― St. Teresa of Avila

“It takes a lot of effort and a bit of wit, but ultimately, knowing how your sailboat functions is very helpful. The ocean changes, but you are always there with your sailboat.”
― F. R. Amoeno, 55 Life Lessons from Amoeno’s Island

“God's responsibility is to set choices before you and counsel you on what is best for you. But God will not make your choice for you.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Never go "by the book" without knowing the intention of the author.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Living your life without knowing your worth is a sin.”
― Nitin Namdeo, I Can Touch You