Self Knowledge Quotes

"We can know only that we know nothing And that is the highest degree of human wisdom" "Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe" "To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think." "Not to be cheered by praise nor to be grieved by blame but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man" "Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and since this spirit knows itself only through the senses it is to these that it turns whenever it has to test its own self-knowledge." "You can only find out what you actually believe, rather than what you think you believe, by watching how you act. You simply don't know what you believe before that" "The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end." "The self thus becomes aware of itself only by its opposition to another self " "Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness visible."