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«Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
reverence, reverenced, reverences, self-knowledge, self control, These Three
«Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery»
«Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Trouble,
World
| Keywords:
abilities, all the way, almost all, frailties, ninety, percent, Strangers, virtues, woe
«The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
God,
Self-knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
discovery, Discovery of, error, finding, first step, The Discovery
«One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
rule, rule of, serve, serves
«People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.»
«Only the shallow know themselves.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
know, only, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows, themselves
«Proclaim not all thou knowest»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
proclaim
«The final mystery is oneself.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Mystery,
Self-knowledge,
Self awareness
| Keywords:
final, finals, mystery, oneself
«The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Self-esteem,
Self-knowledge,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
cater, catered, catering, consider, difficulty, establishment, establishments, herd, herding, sacrificing
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