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Recent Examples of self-knowledge
These are self-knowledge, adding value, and relationships.
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Cathleen Swody, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025
This advancement would offer everyone a convenient and noninvasive way to stay informed and proactively manage their own health, beginning a new era of human self-knowledge.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2025
Breillat’s films depict the lives of women who lack full self-knowledge—who become, for one reason or another, briefly or for extended periods, strangers to themselves.
—Victoria Uren, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
And More All of this hinges on your level of self-knowledge and social-emotional intelligence.
—Colleen Star Koch, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Cultivate Self-Awareness If knowledge is power, self-knowledge is a true superpower.
—Michael Horowitz, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Bill was an extraordinary rarity—a highly productive and widely admired artist who relentlessly pursued self-knowledge, seeking nothing less than an understanding of the fundamental questions of being.
—David A. Ross, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Her characters accumulate self-knowledge but can’t keep it in focus.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
This pathway to sentient AI suggests an intelligence that is propelled by an internal drive for self-knowledge.
—Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Cathleen Swody, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025
This advancement would offer everyone a convenient and noninvasive way to stay informed and proactively manage their own health, beginning a new era of human self-knowledge.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2025
Breillat’s films depict the lives of women who lack full self-knowledge—who become, for one reason or another, briefly or for extended periods, strangers to themselves.
—Victoria Uren, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
And More All of this hinges on your level of self-knowledge and social-emotional intelligence.
—Colleen Star Koch, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Cultivate Self-Awareness If knowledge is power, self-knowledge is a true superpower.
—Michael Horowitz, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Bill was an extraordinary rarity—a highly productive and widely admired artist who relentlessly pursued self-knowledge, seeking nothing less than an understanding of the fundamental questions of being.
—David A. Ross, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Her characters accumulate self-knowledge but can’t keep it in focus.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
This pathway to sentient AI suggests an intelligence that is propelled by an internal drive for self-knowledge.
—Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-knowledge
- self-realization
- self-discovery
- self-exploration
- self-fulfillment
- self-revelation
- self-image
- self-concept
- self-perception
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Both young actors are superb, each zigzagging along that fine line between immature posturing and actual, exhilarating self-realization, evoking that transitional stage through which girls like them can often seem at least three ages at once.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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These songs act as cognitive time capsules, evoking moments of heartbreak, discovery, and self-realization.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes,
6 Dec. 2024
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While it is often marketed as a path to self-discovery, solo travel can also trigger chronic hypervigilance, especially in unfamiliar or unsafe environments.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Regardless of the tier, everyone will be welcomed into a stimulating community focused on exploration, dialogue, and self-discovery.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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The affair becomes a misguided attempt at self-exploration, a way to recapture freedom, desirability or excitement that seems absent in daily life.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Psychedelics and Personal Growth Beyond their therapeutic applications, psychedelics are also gaining recognition as tools for personal growth, self-exploration, and spiritual development.—
Matt Rozo,
The Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2025
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This is Mascaro’s most humane film to date, which isn’t to say that August Winds and Neon Bull weren’t also grounded in the individual’s struggle for self-fulfillment outside the strictures of bourgeois circumscribed society.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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Thus, Mill’s central political concern was not how to create order out of chaos but how to ensure that the beneficiaries of order could achieve self-fulfillment.—
John Micklethwait,
Foreign Affairs,
29 May 2014
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The parallels here are unsubtle, but Falconer’s delicate and impressively assured direction smoothes them into something honest, so that even the moments that might seem obvious to us roil with self-revelation.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2025
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Like Ito, Miller’s narrative finds a galvanizing energy in self-revelation.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Oct. 2024
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Plus, asking for help confidently shapes both others' perception of you and your self-image.—
Melody Wilding,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Does this friend have potential body & self-image issues that the other girls don’t?—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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Developed by psychologists in the 1950s, the test measures an individual's self-concept, or beliefs, attitudes and perceptions.—
Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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People with a strong sense of self tend to have healthier, more stable relationships, while those with low self-concept clarity are more prone to self-doubt, dependency and unconsciously molding their identity around their partner.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Early experiences and parenting styles can also shape a child’s self-perception and emotional health.—
Matt Villano,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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Mercury in Pisces square to Jupiter in Gemini on February 20: Release outdated self-perceptions.—
Colin Bedell,
Them,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Self-knowledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-knowledge. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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