Quotes about Self-knowledge

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“Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.”
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“Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.”
— Seneca
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“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
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“He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.”
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“Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.”
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“To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.”
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“Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.”
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“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”
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“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”
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“An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.”
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“You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.”
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“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
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“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.”
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“There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”
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