561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

an axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourselfno one else can know you

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.