How To Use Self-knowledge In A Sentence
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Knowledge, self-knowledge, and motivation must all change.
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From that derive self-knowledge, confidence and an understanding of one's place in the mosaic of society.
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The search for knowledge and in particular self-knowledge that started in my journey with Oedipus, is not only illusory, it is also a conceit, perhaps also a male conceit.
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The Bhagavad Gita's prescription to combat this crafty enemy within us is to create a culture of introspection and self-knowledge whose basic components lie in courage and humility -- a healthy skepticism of our own "goodness" combined with an unending desire to learn more about ourselves.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego
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She portrays herself as a witness of poetry's sly seizure of the grounds of self-knowledge.
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He just found it hard to resist displaying the intelligent scrutiny he always brought to his endeavors and the self-knowledge that informed it, and which he believed he possessed in greater measure than most people did.
O: A Presidential Novel
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He asserted that a person with self-knowledge as well as knowledge of the opponent will win.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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The depth of his self-knowledge is unplumbed.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Sometimes a bit of selfishness, if it leads to greater self-knowledge, is no bad thing.
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Major stumbling blocks on the path to self-knowledge are denial and blame.
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His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
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Can we ever come to repentance and gain genuine self-knowledge under such a burden?
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I can't do ten mile hikes anymore, or just grab a bag and head out for the weekend, but I've gained the self-knowledge that enables me to avoid the kinds of problems that bedeviled me in my 20s, and that's unlocked a level of happiness I never approached before.
Random Thought Number Two on the Hoosier Hypocrite---Now With More Middle-aged Sex Appeal.
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Self-awareness and self-knowledge were essential for mental health, he said.
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Real self-knowledge is an invaluable guardian against self-deception mechanisms of the ego, and any true and beneficial culture of transformation will teach us this.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego
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Self-knowledge is often the hardest to learn and the least welcome, but the brutal truth is best.
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But how you are to grow in self-knowledge, become more introspective, discover the authentic treasures of insight and of compassion and of spiritual discernment and of a deep bond to other solitary individuals, how in fact can like call out to like without reading, I do not know.
A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why
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The self-knowledge that I could never live contentedly elsewhere than in Nova Scotia seemed to evolve to a point of rock-hard certainty.
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The agential powers of the self-ascriber also play an important role in another non-epistemic construal of what is special about self-knowledge, the authority view.
Self-Knowledge
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self-knowledge
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It is this lack of self-knowledge that makes you powerless.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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Essentially, it meant that each person should acquire the self-knowledge concerning when and how he or she learned best.
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A soupçon of dignity and a bit of self-knowledge is part of growing up and growing old, and probably needs applying to how one dresses as much as everything else.
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With discipline, self-knowledge and a serious nose for fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The perfection of the self is key, going hand-in-hand with self-knowledge, self-responsibility and self-fulfillment.
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Yet viewing those reflections is itself a powerful act, since it allows a momentary self-knowledge "vividly pictured" out of the flux of "the hurrying stream" of time and space:
Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape
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The years in isolation and adversity had deepened his self-knowledge and political awareness.
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An expert in the field weighs in on meditation, self-knowledge and what they have to do with keeping aches and pains away.
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Finally, self-knowledge is a critically important component of metacognitive knowledge.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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It's totally irresponsible for us to accept the sexualization of these very young people, who are not armed with enough self-knowledge to protect themselves from the harm that misplaced sexual intentions can cause.
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Of course, there remains the possibility of corrigible self-knowledge.
Naturalism
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Self-knowledge is crucial to living well or being eudaemon.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
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This is a Lear shocked out of illusion into self-knowledge.
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And the detached, studied, as well as learned tone of his work acts as a pendant to his quest for self-knowledge.
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It appears that the exilic community was in risk of losing a positive identification with Israel because it was overwhelmed with its self-knowledge as the rejected and disobedient one.
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Second, how do they understand the relation between intention and evaluative thought, which bears on the possibility of akrasia, and the relation between intention and belief, which bears on the nature and scope of self-knowledge?
Intention
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Their privileged knowledge is agent self-knowledge, made true by being put into action.
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However, far from being frivolous, this quest for self-knowledge was central to Montaigne's sceptical philosophy.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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They were still allowed some climactic moments of insight and self-knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
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The real problem is that it lacks any self-knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Bhagavad Gita's prescription to combat the narcissistic ego is to create a culture of introspection and self-knowledge whose basic components lie in courage and humility.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego
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He had no self-knowledge and no knowledge of other people.
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The actor conveys at the same instant the character's overweening pride, as well as an element of self-knowledge, which borders on self-disgust.
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Paradoxically, it is often self-knowledge that destroys a Miller character.
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It was the best thing I ever did, apart from quitting smoking, and it gave me so much self-knowledge.
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It is crucial to differentiate the phenomenon of self-awareness from discrete pieces of self-knowledge.
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The final version of this enigmatic character is in one sense an embodiment of Christian gentleness, but it is a gentleness deeply flawed by lack of self-knowledge, confused desire and passivity – an ironic picture which reflects what some would indeed see as Christlikeness, yet incorporates an oblique recognition of something like a Nietzschean critique of Christianity as dealing in unrealities and depending on the resentment of the weak.
Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist
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Before Freud or Jung, Wagner's five-hour-long saga depicted an archetypal journey to self-knowledge.
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He was certain self-knowledge and not vanity guided him.
O: A Presidential Novel
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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In any lasting sense, they can only be given strength by knowledge and self-knowledge and by a sense of common humanity.
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Essentially, it meant that each person should acquire the self-knowledge concerning when and how he or she learned best.
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My new self-knowledge told me that my personality, goals, and skills were best suited to the political arena.
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His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
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The Conservatives seem strangely lacking in self-knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is helpful in understanding self-knowledge to consider parallel issues regarding perceptual knowledge.
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Far from emphasizing the distinctiveness of introspection, the Inner Sense model instead seeks to minimize the anomalousness and associated mystery of self-knowledge by construing introspection as fundamentally similar to perception.
Self-Knowledge
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To me, self-knowledge equals freedom, and I believe that the key to all of this is freedom.
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They were still allowed some climactic moments of insight and self-knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to McDowell's diagnosis, the move from subjective indistinguishability to the highest common factor conception depends upon an illegitimate view of self-knowledge.
Petty Injuries
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The perfection of the self is key, going hand-in-hand with self-knowledge, self-responsibility and self-fulfillment.
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The key concern in Jones's work is the aching desire to know the self and the ultimate impossibility of self-knowledge.
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With a jolt of self-knowledge Caroline registered the same feeling of dismay as at that cool withdrawal after their picnic.
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But taking the gift seriously goes alongside personal humility and self-knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
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His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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Thank you for deepening our self-knowledge of our tombstone mentality.
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Then a learned Brahmana, Saunaka by name versed in self-knowledge and skilled in the _Sankhya_ system of yoga, addressed the king, saying, 'Causes of grief by thousands, and causes of fear by hundreds, day after day, overwhelm the ignorant but not the wise.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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Other Titles: Are Content Externalism and the Notion of Self-Knowledge Compatible ?
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We may acquire knowledge and self-knowledge from such a conversation, but neither is required to begin it.
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The years in isolation and adversity had deepened his self-knowledge and political awareness.
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Within your personal achievements, however small, are the seeds of self-knowledge about your abilities, skills and potential.
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He wished, as the title stated, to expound them thoroughly in their Scriptural meaning, for setting forth the grace of Christ and God, and enabling true self-knowledge.
Life of Luther
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The tools that get you started on the journey to becoming your own shaman may seem simple, but they are very effective for expanding your consciousness and developing self-knowledge--all of which lead to the ultimate goal of self-mastery.
Deborah King: And the Award Goes to...
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On that view, since basic self-knowledge is more certain than perceptual knowledge, it is more imperative that one be master of all its enabling conditions.
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I hope I have enough self-knowledge to recognise that mine is the instinctive response of someone trying not to be seduced.
Restaurant review: the Kingham Plough
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Essentially, it meant that each person should acquire the self-knowledge concerning when and how he or she learned best.
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Then a learned Brahmana, Saunaka by name versed in self-knowledge and skilled in the Sankhya system of yoga, addressed the king, saying, 'Causes of grief by thousands, and causes of fear by hundreds, day after day, overwhelm the ignorant but not the wise.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
