John Calvin Quotes

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?

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

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

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.

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

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

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

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

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

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

Know thyself.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.