self-knowledge

Socrates

know thyself

is acquired never by thinking, always by doing.

How can you come to know yourself' Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is acquired only through joy and sorrow, which teach us what to do and what to avoid.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is never possible by reflection, but only by doing.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is selfknowledge possible to one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is important, for he who does not know himself is subsequently compelled to know much.

He who does not know himself is subsequently compelled to know much. -Indian

is most easily gained by offending two or three of your neighbors.

He who wants to know himself should offend two or three of his neighbors. -German

is a thing too often left uncultivated. It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. Francis Bacon

is attainable only through art, for it is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves. Oscar Wilde

is not needed at all times. It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

self knowledge, n.All

self knowledge