Quotes with self-knowledge

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  • Benjamin Cardozo If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, from experience and study and reflection; in brief, from life itself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Carson If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Winston Churchill If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara McClintock If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Sidney Madwed If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Mao Tse-Tung If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • George Sheehan If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
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  • Brian Tracy If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Mohsin Hamid If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Horace Mann Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Thucydides Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
    Thucydides
    Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
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  • William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marcel Proust Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge
    The Saturday Evening Post (1929)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Arthur Keith In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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