Quotes with self-knowledge

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  • Søren Kierkegaard Be that self which one truly is.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Arthur E. Waite Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Plotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Mark Twain Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Boris Spassky Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Toni Morrison Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Brendon Burchard Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Arthur Henderson But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Albert Claude But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Grenville Kleiser By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Caroline Knapp By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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