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Recent Examples of self-knowledge
Processing the abuse, Majors says, has led to more self-knowledge about his behavior in relationships.
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Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
These are self-knowledge, adding value, and relationships.
—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
Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
These are self-knowledge, adding value, and relationships.
—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
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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Your heart is going through a phase of self-discovery.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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Michelle's and Dorothy's journey of self-discovery do share a remarkable verisimilitude if studied at a relative distance.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
21 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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These cultures tend to view divorce as a justifiable and often necessary step toward self-fulfillment.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 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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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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Learning to build self-worth beyond physical appearance and shifting from seeking external validation to cultivating inner self-acceptance can gradually help restore confidence, leading to healthier relationships and a more positive self-image. 4.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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But after years of struggling with her self-image, an unexpected theory has helped one millennial woman make an eye-opening realization.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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For instance, a 2019 study published in Personal Relationships shows that self-concept clarity — having a strong and stable sense of self — directly predicts greater relationship satisfaction for both partners.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 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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To Feedback Feedback that challenges our self-perception often triggers emotional responses that hinder its effectiveness.—
Sandro da Silva,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Co-written by Gaines and Qasim Basir, The Dutchman stars André Holland as Clay, a successful Black man grappling with his wife Kaya’s (Zazie Beetz) infidelity, as well as his own self-perception versus how the world sees him because of the color of his skin.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Self-knowledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-knowledge. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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