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self-knowledge

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self-knowl·edge (slfnlj)
n.
Knowledge or understanding of one's own nature, abilities, and limitations; insight into oneself.
self-knowledge
n
knowledge of one's own character, etc.
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Noun1.self-knowledge - an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities
discernment, savvy, understanding, apprehension - the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
self-knowledge
noun
Quotations
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,"
"The proper study of mankind is man" [Alexander Pope An Essay on Man]
"Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long" [Herman Hesse Steppenwolf]
"All our knowledge is, our selves to know" [Alexander Pope An Essay on Man]
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself" [Montaigne Essais]
Translations
self-knowledge [ˌselfˈnɒlɪdʒ] N → conocimiento m de sí mismo


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He advised me not to avoid intercourse with the Petersburg Brothers, but to take up only second-grade posts in the lodge, to try, while diverting the Brothers from pride, to turn them toward the true path self-knowledge and self-perfecting.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Casaubon, indeed, had not thoroughly represented those mixed reasons to himself; irritated feeling with him, as with all of us, seeking rather for justification than for self-knowledge.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
desires, most people believe that we can know them by an immediate self-knowledge which does not depend upon observation of our actions.
The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context
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