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adjective

Self-knowing adj.

Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations.

Knowing of itself, without help from another.

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Etymology of 'Self-knowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Self-knowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... the master-work, the end Of all yet done; a creature, who not prone And 'brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with heaven." "Nonne vides hominum ut celsos ad sidera vultus Sustulerit Deus, et sublimia fluxerit ora, Cum pecudes, voluerumque genus, formasque ferarum, Segnem atque obscoenam passim ...

— Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jurgurthine War • Sallust

... field, and in every element of all that is ignorantly thought to be dead and inert matter. So that the soul of man, he said, is one with the soul that is in all Nature, only that when man is truly human, in him alone the soul becomes self-knowing and self-concentrated; the mirror of Heaven, and the focus of the Divine Light. And he declared, moreover, that the spiritual evolution of which he spoke was not so much promoted by intellectual knowledge as by moral goodness; that it was possible to be a very learned ape indeed, but ...

— Dreams and Dream Stories • Anna (Bonus) Kingsford