To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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