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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours? W. E. B. Du Bois

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

Menander

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

Steven Pinker

Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide