Zitat des Tages über Selbsterkenntnis / Self-Knowledge:
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.