Know thyself.
Socrates
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SOCRATES One has to know the size of one's stomach.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Know thyself.
THALES No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself...
PYTHAGORAS Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You must seek to know thyself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU Know thyself and all will be revealed.
PAMELA THERESA LOERTSCHER 'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say '...
MENANDER Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream.
JOHN THOMAS "SPIDER" SALLEY Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE "Know thyself"? If I knew myself I'd run away
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE "Know thyself"? If I knew myself I'd run away
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
SOLON Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'B...
OSCAR WILDE ...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn’t a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself ch...
GARON WHITED Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
JOHANN VON GOETHE You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to k...
DON DELILLO Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.
GRACE WILLOWS One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injuncti...
STEVEN PINKER Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.
JOSTEIN GAARDER I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
PLATO Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She ...
JOSTEIN GAARDER Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
EDWARD YOUNG Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.
RALPH BLUM I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE You will attract a good man if you are good woman that's knows your worth. Don't settle for bullshit...
NERISSA IRVING The life you live is the outward expression of your inner journey.
WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRé GIDE Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, Know Thyself might have added, Don't Tell Anyone!
H. F. HENRICHS Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man
ALEXANDER POPE Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery
MATTHEW ARNOLD Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.
LAO TZU Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all claimed that they knew nothing and so I guess I know e...
GEORGE OTERO As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
TOM STOPPARD The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself
THOMAS CARLYLE Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' nam...
E.L. DOCTOROW A Socrates in every classroom.
ALFRED GRISWOLD A Socrates in every classroom.
ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD Socrates should have written comics.
MARK WAID In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing ...
EDWARD DE BONO Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the th...
SOCRATES Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of i...
PHILIP ROTH You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take...
MORDECAI RICHLER Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin...
PETER KREEFT You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love...
JO WALTON Physician, heal thyself.
PROVERB Physician, heal thyself.
BIBLE Deceive not thyself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There is nothing more notable in MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE They Walking around with tilted and broken crowns. My crown is strong and sits firmly on my head . K...
NERISSA IRVING They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever k...
GORE VIDAL Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Acquaint thyself with God.
A.W. TOZER It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.
SOCRATES For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has bee...
SOCRATES Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things whi...
MARCUS AURELIUS The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs...
PLATO Socrates: (...)They should not pit themselves against the will of the Gods in thought or deed. Here ...
ALAN JACOBS "SOCRATES WITHOUT TEARS" A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the r...
SHIV KHERA Arm thyself for the truth!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own developmen...
ANDRE GIDE Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know th...
BIBLE Forgive thyself little, and others much.
ROBERT LEIGHTON Forgive thyself little, and others much.
LEIGHTON Rouse thyself! do not be idle!
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Love thyself first to love others.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own developm...
ANDRE GIDE Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own developm...
ANDRE GIDE Know thyself. Really think this through before you make a commitment to a lifestyle and work style y...
LAURIE ROZAKIS Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thy...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
C.S. LEWIS Only when YOU let go of YOURSELF will the real you surface.
TAPAN GHOSH You must look inside thyself to better understand what you are and why
SIDDHARTH DUBEY "Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it’s a good thing that it would. Eating nails is de...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Help thyself and Heaven will help thee
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
STEVE JOBS I like to say this (new program) is Socrates meets Bill Gates.
DIANNE BOWERS Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
IEYASU TOKUGAWA The only gift is a portion of thyself.
RALPH WALSO EMERSON Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The only gift is a portion of thyself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only hindrance to thy greatness is thyself
JOHN MICHAEL MENDEZ Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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