|
|
Definition of Self-knowledge
1. Noun. An understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities.
Definition of Self-knowledge
1. Noun. Knowledge or insight into ones own nature and abilities ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Self-knowledge
1. Recognition of one's own character, tendencies, and peculiarities. Synonym: self-knowledge. Origin: auto-+ G. Gnosis, knowledge (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-knowledge
Literary usage of Self-knowledge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"The self-deluded man does not want the mere power of self-knowledge, but lie has
lost the will—perhaps in the end he has lost the power—to judge himself ..."
2. Mind (1902)
"self-knowledge. BY CHARLES MARION TYLEE. The most efficacious method of enduring
one's ... self-knowledge is therefore the key to individual improvement. ..."
3. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"... or in self-knowledge, self-know- In commenting upon this definition, ...
that self-knowledge is impossible : next, clared to be that if possible, ..."
4. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"Self Knowledge and Self Control.—What is needed in education more than anything
else is some means or system which will train the powers of self discovery ..."
5. The Sermons of Mr. Yorick by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1904)
"SERMON IV self-knowledge And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man :
and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done thia ..."
6. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"Self Knowledge and Self Control.—What is needed in education more than anything
else is some means or system which will train the powers of self discovery ..."
7. Annals of the American Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished by William Buell Sprague (1858)
"Yet the event proved that his boldness arose, not from a partial, groundless,
self-conceit, but from true self-knowledge. Upon fair and candid trial, ..."
Other Resources:
