Quotes with self-knowledge

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  • Benjamin Disraeli Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
    Drysdale - The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Lee Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ann Coulter Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • James Tyler Kent While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Harold Rosenberg Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Albert Einstein Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Max Stirner Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Buffalo Bill Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Johnson Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas J. Watson Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • John Cheever Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt With self-discipline most anything is possible.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bob Newhart With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Vaclav Havel Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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