Quotes with self-knowledge

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  • Marilyn Ferguson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Brandon Sanderson Of course not, she agreed, You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
    Warbreaker (2009) Blushweaver
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bo Burnham Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • John Ruskin Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Ashe One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Maxwell Maltz One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Plato Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
    The New York Times (3 December 1978)
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Will Durant Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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