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Recent Examples of self-knowledge
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.
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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
The second half is a model to put that self-knowledge into action.
—Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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
The second half is a model to put that self-knowledge into action.
—Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 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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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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Rothwell, who created and stars in the Hulu series, understood the need for a coming-of-age story about celebrating oneself at all parts of the journey, no matter how turbulent the road to self-realization is.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2024
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Her journey to save her father and fulfill her dream is filled with adventure and self-discovery delivered in vibrant CG animation.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Torn between two very different suitors, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), Bridget’s journey of self-discovery and romance is funny and endearing.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
Fox News,
12 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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The entirety of the album is a self-exploration for Carroll.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
7 Dec. 2024
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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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Deserving Self-Fulfillment The final justification, cited by 13 participants, was that their affairs were a form of deserving self-fulfillment.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
13 Oct. 2024
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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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Negative thoughts are typically rooted in fear, insecurity, doubt, a lack of self-esteem or a low self-image.—
Vicki Salemi,
Boston Herald,
9 Feb. 2025
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However, lavish gardens like these were also regularly used to project power and divine favor, possibly reinforcing the emperor’s self-image of a god-like figure.—
Jake Parks,
Discover Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
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But while anyone can be a hero, not everyone has a heroic self-concept.—
Cassidy Creech,
The Conversation,
14 Jan. 2025
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McMahon adds that communal mirroring within cohorts supports leaders in refining their self-concept and embracing a new leader identity.—
Sam Rockwell,
Forbes,
22 Oct. 2024
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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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Because of this, the feedback received from others helps shape our self-perception.—
Allie Volpe,
Vox,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Self-knowledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-knowledge. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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