To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I’m selfish.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

The only shame is to have none.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I think and that is all that I am.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.