Quotes on self-knowledge

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

Voltaire

“A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself.”

Steve Maraboli

“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”

C. JoyBell C.

“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”

Jostein Gaarder

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”

Stefan Molyneux

“Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.”

Ja A. Jahannes

“Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.”

Stefan Molyneux

“What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.”

Stefan Molyneux

“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”

Stefan Molyneux

“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying no to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.”

Stefan Molyneux

“Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.”

Stefan Molyneux

“Excuses are a promise of repetition.”

Stefan Molyneux

“There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.”

Stefan Molyneux

“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.”

Stefan Molyneux

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”

Stefan Molyneux

“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”

Stefan Molyneux

“The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.”

Jordan B. Peterson