“The barrier between oneself and one’s knowledge of oneself is high indeed. There are so many things one would rather not know!” — James Baldwin, “The Creative Process,” Creative America
Tag: self-knowledge
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“No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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“A little self-knowledge is a dangerous thing.” — Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
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“If a man’s at odds to know his own mind it’s because he hasn’t got aught but his mind to know it with.” — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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“Through technology we’re becoming more known to everyone but ourselves.” — Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223, The Paris Review, Summer 2014
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“People who barely know their own minds can tell you, in minute detail, the arcane motives of a person whom they’ve never met.” — Michael Wade, Lessons of Modern Life (2017-08-18)
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“The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it : that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.” — Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
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“When you’re through sizing up the other fellow, it’s a good thing to step back from yourself and see how you look. Then add fifty per cent to your estimate of your neighbor for virtues that you can’t see, and deduct fifty per cent from yourself for faults that you’ve missed in your inventory, and you’ll have a pretty accurate result.” — George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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“The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn’t stop me in the least from making them.” — Phillip Lopate, Against Joie de Vivre
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“If you tell me that there is always life for the living ; that what man has done man can do ; that this world belongs to the energetic; that there is always a way to everything desirable ; that every man is provided, in the new bias of his faculty, with a key to nature, and that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things, – I am invigorated.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 8 (Letters and Social Aims)
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