Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world"
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Personal Knowledge
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Joan Bennett Kennedy
Political Figure
"The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever."
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