Quotes with self-knowledge

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  • Lord George Byron Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Armstrong Williams Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • J. Swartz Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • George Eliot Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Goldman Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • William James Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • James Russell Lowell Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Superior knowledge is a mistake; that which rules the world is superior ignorance.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Uta Hagen Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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  • Jean Anouilh Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Billy Graham Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Johnson That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bhagavad Gita That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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