#know

Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#knowledge #love #education

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#been #brought #centre #could #everything

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fate

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people #prejudice #prejudice

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#could #give #hurt #knowing #materialized

In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone. ↗

— Hotaru Odagiri

#betrayal

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. ↗

— Doris Mortman

#know-thyself #contentment

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything... ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#skepticism #thinking #skepticism

I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#limitations-of-knowledge #tribalism #arrogance

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night. ↗

— François Fénelon

#self-knowledge #sin #spiritual-growth #self-growth