"Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within"
- Heraclitus
"Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every ag..."
- John Henry Newman
"I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my desires, my pleasures may at first appear different, but that is only beca..."
- Richard Saul Wurman
"Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has..."
- Ruth Reichl
"History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."
- R.G. Collingwood
"A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being."
- Tom Spanbauer
"The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings."
- Don DeLillo