SOCRATES: And self-knowledge we agree to be wisdom?. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades I] Reference
This statement does injustice to his self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
The pursuit of Brahman or self-knowledge is immortality. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
HAMILL: It's a journey of self-knowledge, self-discovery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 22, 2006] Reference
This bit of self-knowledge launched Davis into her career. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth About Smog] Reference
I have spoken (to thee) of renunciation and self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
I should infer from that, that your self-knowledge is small. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
This is not self-pity but the coldest, clearest self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [DarklyDreamingDexter]
Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche: Is Buddhism a Religion?] Reference
One can create nothing of lasting value without self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze] Reference
Was it because of this self-knowledge that he had never married?. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Little Crosses]
Yet he is endowed with self-knowledge and self-effacing dignity. From Wordnik.com. [What These Eyes Have Seen] Reference
Or is self-knowledge a difficult thing, which few are able to attain?. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades I] Reference
The more subtle forms of self-knowledge belong to a later period in life. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of Catholic Girls] Reference
A finer appreciation of the world inevitably brings greater self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Wednesday: The Writer's Brain Is Soup And 10 Unbreakable Research Rules] Reference
Political necessity, more than any sudden self-knowledge, propelled the speech. From Wordnik.com. [Sobering Times] Reference
He stuck to his message, but I think you can never underestimate self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2009] Reference
Fasting, he knew, was in all religious systems the introduction to self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Nor had Shannon gained the slightest glimmer of self-knowledge from the experience. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Shut up, Shannon!] Reference
His confidence in his own powers was the just result of self-knowledge and self-respect. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
It means finding new standards of self-knowledge and personal and public responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [A Children's Crusade] Reference
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
It was not without a struggle that the Mayor had yielded himself to this true self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
SOCRATES: But if we have no self-knowledge and no wisdom, can we ever know our own good and evil?. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades I] Reference
The second thing is that Bill Clinton just hasn't reached any level of self-knowledge about this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Exactly How Big Should the Federal Tax Cut Be?; How Should Clinton be Penalized for Pardoning Marc Rich, if at All? - February 18, 2001] Reference
He drew his conception of himself from his own self-knowledge, not from his Messianic meditations. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
So if that's her -- her reference, that shows not only a lot of self-knowledge, but some -- some distance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2009] Reference
"His self-knowledge and his purity are all the greater because of the temptations he has had to withstand.". From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
You open your eyes and your heart to new experiences, and in the process you gain a wealth of self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Haisha: Learn to Travel Like a Local -- Instead of Standing Out as a Tourist] Reference
Be watchful and diligent, and busy thyself in the practice of "self-knowledge, self-reverence, self-control.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
There were contradictions in his character, flaws and conflicts even, which he wrote about with self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Burn obituary] Reference
Lear, losing all, gains self-knowledge and compassion; Sabbath is simply left to rub his hands at the fire of his own outrage. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrating An Unholy Sabbath] Reference
'Life without reflection upon life, without self-examination and self-study and self-knowledge, is a life not worth living by man.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
"Come what may," he famously added, "self-knowledge will lead to self-rule, and that would be the proudest day in British history.". From Wordnik.com. [SHARED WISDOM] Reference
The novel becomes a philosophical reflection on truth, lies, belief and self-knowledge shot through Bunting's ruminations on theodicy. From Wordnik.com. [Epilogue] Reference
Behold that excellent and bright summit of the Meru, where sitteth the great sire (Brahma) with the celestials happy in self-knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
In my experience, however, the only highly sustainable source of self-confidence comes from deep self-knowledge and blatant self-honesty. From Wordnik.com. [Chade-Meng Tan: An Engineer's View of Self-Confidence] Reference
When a life-work presents itself we ought to be able from our self-knowledge to say, "I am, or am not, fitted to be useful in that sphere.". From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
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