#know

No one knows more about the way you think than you do. ↗

— Seth Godin

#thinking #self-knowledge

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#self-assurance #self-knowledge #self-knowledge

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you! ↗

— Frank Herbert

#self-knowledge #self-knowledge

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper. ↗

— Polly Horvath

#libraries #reading #summer #self-knowledge

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#self #self-knowledge

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#wisdom #self-knowledge

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses. ↗

— Janet Frame

#self-knowledge #self-knowledge

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#honesty #illusions #perception #personality #self-awareness

I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know. ↗

— Sara Quin

#heartbreak #i-don-t-want-to-know #sara-quin #someday #tegan-and-sara

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#historiography #history #knowledge #nature