"Know mankind well, don't degrade every man..." - Quote by Rumi
Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.
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More on Self Knowledge
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
More on Understanding
“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.”
“It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.”
“Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.”