Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Knowledge or understanding of one's own nature, abilities, and limitations; insight into oneself.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The knowledge of one's own real character, abilities, worth, or demerit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Knowledge or
insight into one's ownnature andabilities .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Bhagavad Gita's prescription to combat this crafty enemy within us is to create a culture of introspection and self-knowledge whose basic components lie in courage and humility -- a healthy skepticism of our own "goodness" combined with an unending desire to learn more about ourselves.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego Ramnath Subramanian 2010
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Real self-knowledge is an invaluable guardian against self-deception mechanisms of the ego, and any true and beneficial culture of transformation will teach us this.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego Ramnath Subramanian 2010
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Real self-knowledge is an invaluable guardian against self-deception mechanisms of the ego, and any true and beneficial culture of transformation will teach us this.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego Ramnath Subramanian 2010
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The Bhagavad Gita's prescription to combat the narcissistic ego is to create a culture of introspection and self-knowledge whose basic components lie in courage and humility.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego Ramnath Subramanian 2010
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The Bhagavad Gita's prescription to combat this crafty enemy within us is to create a culture of introspection and self-knowledge whose basic components lie in courage and humility -- a healthy skepticism of our own "goodness" combined with an unending desire to learn more about ourselves.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego Ramnath Subramanian 2010
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I hope I have enough self-knowledge to recognise that mine is the instinctive response of someone trying not to be seduced.
Restaurant review: the Kingham Plough Jay Rayner 2010
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He just found it hard to resist displaying the intelligent scrutiny he always brought to his endeavors and the self-knowledge that informed it, and which he believed he possessed in greater measure than most people did.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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He was certain self-knowledge and not vanity guided him.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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But how you are to grow in self-knowledge, become more introspective, discover the authentic treasures of insight and of compassion and of spiritual discernment and of a deep bond to other solitary individuals, how in fact can like call out to like without reading, I do not know.
A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why 2010
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Real self-knowledge is an invaluable guardian against self-deception mechanisms of the ego, and any true and beneficial culture of transformation will teach us this.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego Ramnath Subramanian 2010
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