252 Quotes About Knowledge-of-self

We walk from darkness to light,From light back to darkness again,From unknown to known,Known back to unknown

If you are going to accept anything, accept who you are.

The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person’s own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

Keep people who inspire you in your life.Seek teachers and study great artist. No matter how talented or gifted you are you've had a long line of great people come before you.Learn from them.

In order to learn how unreservedly to love other flawed people we must first learn to accept the tattered flag of the self. Self-love begins with crucial self-examination. To know oneself we must make a valiant attempt at living, we must create a record of sincere effort, and we must know our history.

Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough to give it a meaning, a subjective meaning, a meaning exclusively important for the navigator himself.

That you can now be called adult does not mean you have achieved your full power, only that you are able to acquire other and larger powers.