Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

He who knows himself knows god.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

To grow yourself, you must know yourself.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.