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To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.


Minna Antrim

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To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius
MINNA ANTRIM It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
F. H. BRADLEY There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
ALBERT PIKE I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day a...
CEELO GREEN The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's s...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's e...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one&...
CORLISS LAMONT Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNE I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's jo...
PENNY MARSHALL Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
CONFUCIUS To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
ELAINE DUNDY The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
OTTO DIX I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
LAILA ALI Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
BERNARD BERENSON A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
CHARLES DICKENS It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I wa...
SAMIRA WILEY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
ELLEN GLASGOW The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally differe...
ANNALYNNE MCCORD What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counter...
ANGELA AHRENDTS Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow...
GARY RYAN BLAIR I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big differe...
EVELYN GLENNIE To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
FRANKLIN P. JONES We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where y...
HELEN FISHER I genuinely don't care about the 'number one' tag. That's not my goal. You know, no ...
ANUSHKA SHARMA It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the fu...
BEN FELDMAN Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by enterin...
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people&#...
V. S. NAIPAUL 'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
DAMON GALGUT I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know...
HOWARD NEMEROV The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and ...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH It's not nice to say it - I know female musicians, but not so many rappers. I can't think of...
AWKWAFINA I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipli...
DALIA MOGAHED I know it's not a one man team win or lose.
BRETT FAVRE I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing...
AVICII When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k...
NANCY REAGAN All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one...
JEFF BUCKLEY The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity ...
LAURIE HELGOE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere,...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I know one business, and that's how to make software.
XAVIER NIEL I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great on...
LUCY HALE I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he&#...
ADAM SAVAGE Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one&...
FREYA STARK I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local gov...
HEATHER BROOKE One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an abilit...
RUSSELL SMITH I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
MARY J. BLIGE It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpr...
MIKE TYSON A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no ...
SAM CLAFLIN Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.
JAMES CHILES The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the ...
SHEPARD SMITH I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.
ELIZABETH MITCHELL I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture...
MICHAEL DIRDA It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know ...
LAURA DERN What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execu...
MICHELANGELO I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in f...
MARLO THOMAS I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
ARTHUR MILLER There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he...
GROUCHO MARX There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's...
CRISTIANO RONALDO There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but...
EMMA THOMPSON One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we...
CAL RIPKEN, JR. I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It&...
DARIUS RUCKER I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as...
LINDSAY DUNCAN Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'ink...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the mos...
ARIANA GRANDE Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he&...
LARRY NIVEN The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one...
SAM HARRIS With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build ...
DALAI LAMA Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightl...
LUPITA NYONG'O One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHY Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's...
JONATHAN AMES When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punchi...
ED KOCH I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod '...
LES BAXTER The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's wor...
MARGOT FONTEYN One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know eve...
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