Knowledge Of Self Quotes

Knowledge of self ought to be the great project of our lives. Knowing ourselves we will know others. Only by knowing ourselves can we begin to undo the madness we unleash on the world in our wars, our destruction of the environment, our divisions, our desire to dominate others, the poverty we create and exploit. Only through self-knowledge can we reverse the damage we do with all the worldly knowledge we have, which has been only a higher ignorance. ~ Ben Okri

​Until your inner teacher wakes up, all worldly teachings are worthless. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything. ~ Ramana Maharshi

We readily rebel against our knowledge than our ignorance. ~ Kangoma Kindembo

Gnani Purush' [the enlightened one] has the [knowledge of the-Self] essence of all religions. ~ Dada Bhagwan

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self. ~ Nelly

What is the value and worth of knowledge? My teachings have taught me that many will die for lack of knowledge. If knowledge and mindset are key ingredients to life - why do some reject it? Remove know from knowledge and you are standing on the ledge. When are we going to rescue ourselves from the ledge? ~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Since there is nothing new under the sun. The aim of motivation is to confirm what you already know. Simply, clearing your doubts. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

Do your best. Then, surrender to the Divine Will. And of course, chill. Things work as they will. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality. ~ Muhammad Ali

He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)! ~ Dada Bhagwan

It's to do with knowing and being known. I remember how it stopped seeming odd that in biblical Greek, knowing was used for making love. Whosit knew so-and-so. Carnal knowledge. It's what lovers trust each other with. Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face. Every other version of oneself is on offer to the public. We share our vivacity, grief, sulks, anger, joy… we hand it out to anybody who happens to be standing around, to friends and family with a momentary sense of indecency perhaps, to strangers without hesitation. Our lovers share us with the passing trade. But in pairs we insist that we give ourselves to each other. What selves? What's left? What else is there that hasn't been dealt out like a deck of cards? Carnal knowledge. Personal, final, uncompromised. Knowing, being known. I revere that. Having that is being rich, you can be generous about what's shared - she walks, she talks, she laughs, she lends a sympathetic ear, she kicks off her shoes and dances on the tables, she's everybody's and it don't mean a thing, let them eat cake; knowledge is something else, the undealt card, and while it's held it makes you free-and-easy and nice to know, and when it's gone everything is pain. Every single thing. Every object that meets the eye, a pencil, a tangerine, a travel poster. As if the physical world has been wired up to pass a current back to the part o ~ Tom Stoppard

The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure.-Serena Jade ~ Serena Jade

Billions of people are living on the earth today with the knowledge of mathematics, physics, and biology. They have the knowledge of stocks market, the knowledge of politics, engineering, law, and medicine. They know about fashion, sports, arts, music and a lot more other aspects of life. However, the sad reality is that a greater percentage of these people do not know who they are nor why they exist. They do not know for what purpose they are on the earth and where they are heading ~ Clement Ogedegbe

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. ~ Ramana Maharshi

When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the 'foremost' religion. If they do not remain in unison, you should maintain the intent of 'I want to keep them in unison'; then some day it will come into fruition if this resolve is there. ~ Dada Bhagwan

Trauma is a rude awakening, but also an opportunity to edit the script from believing to knowing. Self define for destiny's shine! ~ T.F. Hodge

To 'us', nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one's own 'boundary' (to not remain as the Self). ~ Dada Bhagwan

402Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you your intellect. These are things that you have . They're not things that you are . Therefore you have to start to become aware of the different requirements that human beings have, the different areas that they like to be satisfied in. Which means becoming aware of yourself. I mean, as a writer you're gonna have to understand pretty much the whole universe. But the best place to start is by understanding the inner universe. The entire universe – for one thing – only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality. So. To understand the universe there's worse advice than that which was carved above the shrine of the Delphi oracle. Where it just said: "Know thyself". Understand yourself. Know thyself is a magical goal, but like I say to me there is very little difference between magic and creative art in any sense – the laws of one apply perfectly well to the other. ~ Alan Moore

It's important to know that you're behind, to be able to convince yourself to make sacrifices that get you ahead. ~ Shivanee Harshey

If there's one thing every good novelist understands, it's that our inner world is unreliable and yet there's no getting beyond it. Every sense is subject to deception, including the moral sense. What seems at first like the hard surface of spiritual reality is really fathomless when you dive down into it. There is no bottom. We neve know anything for sure. (p. xvi) ~ Andrew Klavan

Hope is alive when u know your anchor ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us. ~ Lawrence Block

The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon. ~ Dov Davidoff

To be able to see one's own faults; this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit; Self-realization; right belief). ~ Dada Bhagwan

In trying to formalize a rule, we look for truth, but what we find is knowledge, and what we fail to find is certainty. This limitation has no special bearing on the knowledge of self. ~ Jacob Bronowski

How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm everything that you're not. ~ Ahmed Mostafa

Time to rest as congratulations are in order ... you have survived and mastered the beast; may knowledge of self be your victory. ~ Wes Adamson

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself? ~ RZA

A person can draw from three resources to understand and evaluate human existence: study of self, observation of other people, and reading books. Self-study is the most difficult learning methodology and it is rife with dangerous pretentions, but also the most fruitful. Studying other people is infinitely fallible because of our inability to establish an unbiased perspective and the subjects' propensity to hide their secret thoughts, which obscures our vision. Book reading is a laborious process and even diligent reading can lead to faculty perception due to writers' agenda to persuade us instead of merely conveying information. Nevertheless, by incorporating all three learning methodologies into a regime of studious reflection I might learn about the world, other inhabitants, and the self, and use such knowledge to cleave a fitting personal place in the world. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted. ~ Steven J. Lawson

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. ~ Abdullah Ibrahim

Change is good only when you know yourself. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

The work of the religion ends when the knowledge of God begins. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

If you are going to accept anything, accept who you are. ~ J.R. Rim

Know your worth. Examine what you tolerate! ~ Jyoti Patel

Get Smart or Die Trying ~ Trizzmatic

There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others. ~ Tyler J. Hebert

Don't be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose. ~ Tony Curl

You must convince your chiefs that what you're telling 'em is important, which ain't difficult, since they want to believe you, having chiefs of their own to satisfy; make as much mystery of your methods as you can; hint what a thoroughgoing ruffian you can be in a good cause, but never forget that innocence shines brighter than any virtue, "Flashman? Extraordinary fellow - kicks 'em in the crotch with the heart of a child"; remember that silence frequently passes for shrewdness, and that while suppressio veri is a damned good servant, suggestio falsi is a perilous master. ~ George MacDonald Fraser

Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings.. ~ Victoria Addino

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self. ~ John Fowles

A man who finds peace in the fume of his work is a man who knows himself and, therefore, knows what he must do. What is it that I would sacrifice myself to achieve? What is it that fills my lonely days and dowdy nights? What work consoles the soul? What action allows the brain to work at a fever, burn like an uncontrollable wildfire? What occupation, craft, or deed can I undertake that will embody a desire to share with other people my intellectual and emotional being? How does one express their worldly aspirations and spiritual yearnings? ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. 'We' are separate and the relative self is separate from us. 'We' should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn't get involved with those problems. ~ Dada Bhagwan

C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the moment came to act upon these convictions, he discovered that his knowledge of self was faulty. Had his lack of killer instinct been a momentary lapse, first time jitters? Or was there more to it than that? If not the fearless, remorseless man he supposed himself to be, then just who was he? ~ Roy L. Pickering Jr.

We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate injustice that a person could be evil, by our assessment , and still feel fine about himself. ~ Martha Stout

Knowledge is ever greater and more powerful than man. To walk the path of knowledge is to fight for survival; therefore if you come to this path to learn, then you must be prepared to fight as if your life depends upon it. ~ Théun Mares

As long as one finds faults with the world, he won't be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself! ~ Dada Bhagwan

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ~ James Mark Baldwin

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition. ~ Raheel Farooq

Some would say - don't strive for what cannot be achieved. But how do you know what can be achieved without trying?
Nor is it correct to say - Be happy with what you've got.
But should happiness depend on inferiority?


No, to my way of thinking expectations should align with ability. Therefore if one increases the ability to achieve higher goals by determination and perseverance, higher achievements will be the norm.

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No man can survive the path of knowledge if he is not prepared to embrace death. Death is a warrior's best advisor. ~ Théun Mares

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self. ~ Immortal Technique

Every one has eyes but only handfull of people see. ~ David P

Knowing yourself is the first step to knowing your universe. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you hold your knowledge of self and world wholeheartedly, your heart will at times get broken by loss, failure, defeat, betrayal, or death. What happens next in you and the world around you depends on how your heart breaks. If it breaks apart into a thousand pieces, the result may be anger, depression, and disengagement. If it breaks open into greater capacity to hold the complexities and contradictions of human experience, the result may be new life. ~ Parker J. Palmer

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self. ~ Shirley Maclaine

Animals, according to Hegel, have an immediate knowledge of the exterior world, a perception of the
self, but not the knowledge of self, which distinguishes man. The latter is only really born at the moment
when he becomes aware of himself as a rational being. Therefore his essential characteristic is selfconsciousness. ~ Albert Camus

To know our own self is bliss. To see themselves clearly, a person must plunge themselves into the world they inhabit. We enhance our personal perspective by acquiring knowledge of the world. The more one knows about living through vivid personal encounters in the world that they occupy, the more that a person will come to understand him or herself. Self-knowledge requires an honest accounting of a person's experiences, frank admission of their furtive desires, and gracious acceptance of reality without surrendering their willingness to work to improve oneself and comfort other people. By attaching images to their real life experiences and secret dreams, a person learns rightly about the world. By writing about what adversities they experienced, a person can consciously go about integrating new ideas into their way of living. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation ~ Keigo Higashino

When one sees one's own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss! ~ Dada Bhagwan

Clarity does not always comes with experience. It does come with knowledge, with a proper state of mind. That is why the importance of meditation and literature can not be under emphasised. ~ Harshit Walia

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. ~ Charles De Lint

If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world! ~ Dada Bhagwan

Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn't a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn't a goal; it's a road. ~ Garon Whited

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. ~ John Calvin

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for. ~ Erri De Luca

To achieve balance have knowledge of self; continuously seeking. Balance consciously. If not, life will indeed balance you. Put your actions in place with the universe. Realize that you stimulate everything around you. Recognize it within yourself. Everything is but a mere reflection. ~ Rha'

Homes are built on the foundation of wisdom
and understanding. ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

The Bible does tell us who we are and what we should do, but it does so through the lens of who God is. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of self always go hand in hand. ~ Jen Wilkin

many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The 'knowledge' (gnan) that was resulting into 'the things to be known' (gneya); when that 'knowledge' results in the 'Knower' (gnata); this is known as Self-Realization [Atma Gnan]. ~ Dada Bhagwan

Even then, I was dreaming of Raistlin's black robes one moment, and Dorsett's spin move the next. This was what my father deeded
that our Knowledge of Self be more than America, that we understand the brain death that sprawled from the projects to the subdivisions. Consciousness was a beginning, but the imagination could turn straight 18s into paladins in plate, could make warrens in tunnels from graph paper, could pull armies of gnolls from miniatures
that was the Knowledge that ultimately would find a way out. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

There is no true knowledge of self apart from the knowledge of God. ~ Jen Wilkin

Consciousness cannot be glimpsed as though it were something outside yourself, because it is you. ~ Belsebuub

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost. ~ Immortal Technique

Religion without sense is like a car with no wheels. You can be in it, but it won't take you anywhere. We must be logical and good-natured if we want it to take us places for the greater good. ~ Torron-Lee Dewar

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law
for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it ... The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life. ~ Clarice Lispector

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves
- except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends.
Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineerings of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark. ~ Ali Smith

One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the 'Knowledge' [of the Soul, one's True Self] is to be enjoyed. ~ Dada Bhagwan

Sun does not need your torch to shine ~ 'SON Of GOD' P.S.Jagadeesh Kumar

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small. ~ Myles Munroe

Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self). ~ Dada Bhagwan

The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him. ~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self). ~ Dada Bhagwan

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God ... without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self. ~ John Calvin

Be what you are, but be careful in what you're doing. ~ Solitude's Friend

Self-realisation is the highest knowledge you can ever seek into your life - The rest are simply facts. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct. ~ Dada Bhagwan

Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how to resolve the problems of production and division of goods. ~ Czeslaw Milosz

Many minutes pass. I learn much from him, and he from me. It's exhilarating, to be suddenly awash in ideas whose implications would take me days to consider fully. But we're also gathering strategic information: I infer the extent of his unspoken knowledge, compare it with my own, and simulate his corresponding inferences. For there is always the awareness that this must come to an end; the formulation of our exchanges renders ideological differences luminously clear. Reynolds hasn't witnessed the beauty that I have; he's stood before lovely insights, oblivious to them. The sole gestalt that inspires him is the one I ignored: that of the planetary society, of the biosphere. I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity. Each feels that the other has ignored great opportunities. He ~ Ted Chiang

Life is a spiritual journey, so enjoy the expression of spirit in every little beauty. ~ Debasish Mridha

Story time isn't much better. Imagine sitting in a circle with acquaintances, chanting spells and being drilled on a variety of subjects. "What sound does a duck make?" Who cares? When will I need to know that? How is this knowledge of barnyard animals and their corresponding noises going to improve my life? Toddlers who get up to stretch their legs or explore will be publicly admonished. The participation reward will not be a glazed doughnut, so don't bother. ~ Bunmi Laditan

According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness ... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues. ~ Leo Strauss

Given the limits of our knowledge of such psychological problems as belief and motivation, the question of sincerity ... is misleading and fruitless. ~ Donald Weinstein