Top 1200 Knowing Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

For acting, classes are a necessity, but for modeling it's really just knowing who you are and knowing how to sell yourself.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Obviously, getting stronger is the key, and knowing how to use my body, knowing what to expect.

Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.

The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.

I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set of rules, habits, systems, moving parts.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera.

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

It's not about knowing the key to success, but knowing how to use it and which doors to open

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.

Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.

We all have a purpose in life and I believe this being an activist is mine, so that's one of my driving forces. The second driving force is knowing that I'm actually making a difference to people's lives. Knowing that women are saying that their young daughters are looking up to me now, knowing that I've helped someone to not commit suicide. Getting messages like that are very powerful.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he or she shows a good knowledge of what fits them, where you can find naturalness and self-esteem. Not showing off. Elegance is the idea of showing an optimistic depiction of oneself, and to lose oneself in the frivolity of style and fashion.

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.

That's the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody's so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game - knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn to become a pilot is to learn - not to let oneself fly too slowly. Not to let oneself turn without accelerating. Not to cross the controls. Not to do this, and not to do that. . . . To pilot is negation.