Quotes:
"The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen."
- George S. Arundale
"There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."
- Pearl Bailey
"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all."
- Bernard M. Baruch
"He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding."
- Walter Benjamin
"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."
- Josh Billings
"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
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