561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.

Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

The fact is, inner peace isn't something that comes when you finally paint the whole house a nice shade of cream and start drinking herbal tea. Inner peace is something that is shaped by the wisdom that 'this too shall pass' and is fired in the kiln of self-knowledge...

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.