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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will...” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“You must always know what it is that you want” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really...” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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