Knowledge Quotes

To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

God wastes nothing.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

I am because my little dog knows me.

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

Processed data is information.Processed information is knowledgeProcessed knowledge is Wisdom.

The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract,

You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.

The most essential step in marketing your services is selecting an occupation you can throw yourself into wholeheartedly.

Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.

Do something that feels good in the mornings! It will help you to setup your day to take in more knowledge and understanding, which ultimately leads to wisdom.

The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.

He has to come to it on his own.

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

Why has no one come to pry me out of here?- Cersei

The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.