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- Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
- Author Unknown
- Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
- Lord Tennyson
- If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
- Sidney Madwed
- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
- George Gurdjieff
- A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
- Bruce Catton
- The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that 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
- Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want.
- Author Unknown
- Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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