Quotes about Self knowledge

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Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed. — Persius, The Satires of Persius
Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and th — Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept t — Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once — C.G. Jung
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. — Flannery O'Connor
Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point. — Kiana Davenport, House of Skin: Prize-Winning Stories
Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within — Heraclitus, Fragments
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or per — John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]
I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgence — Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2
Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty co — Ruth Reichl, Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way
History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, i — R.G. Collingwood
A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and — Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings. — Don DeLillo
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. — Nate Silver