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We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth. (Quote by - Carl Jung)

When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live. (Quote by - Norvin G. McGranahan)

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. (Quote by - F. H. Bradley)

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of every friend and every foe. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be. (Quote by - Golda Meir)

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. (Quote by - Alexander Chase)

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool. (Quote by - Chuang-tzu)

If I could know me, I could know the universe. (Quote by - Shirley MacLaine)

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. (Quote by - Caroline Bird)

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