Quotes with self-knowledge

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1220.

  • Gerald F. Lieberman There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Arnold Bennett There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Camille Paglia There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Pearl Bailey There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Francis Bacon There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ben Hecht There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bernard Malamud There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertrand Russell There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Walter Lippmann There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Grover Cleveland There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • John Gay There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Bob Kerrey There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Thomas Reid There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no knowledge that is not power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brigham Young There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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