self-knowledge

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Recent Examples of self-knowledge Discovering one’s impulses and sources (artistic self-knowledge) is essential for answering these questions. Douglas Unger august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025 Every experiment, success, and failure builds self-knowledge—the kind no college ranking can offer. Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 These names suggest individual agents with self-knowledge, but that's an illusion created by the conversational interface. ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025 At the same time, White also shows that his view of the world, colored by his sexuality, is a kind of superpower that reveals self-knowledge hidden from most people. John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025 Not only is our ability to know ourselves limited, but scientists can probably only know so much about the nature of self-knowledge. Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025 Singer Billy Kaunda is particularly drawn to existentialist themes such as the value of self-knowledge and conscious choices in how to live. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-knowledge
Noun
  • The prosecutor challenged a defense claim that Torres ended the abuse in an act of self-realization.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Per Britannica, Jung's psychoanalytic method focuses on integrating conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche to achieve personal growth and self-realization.
    Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Saturn retrograde and a total lunar eclipse in Pisces bring focus to your expansive ninth house of self-discovery and perspective, sparking deeper conversations with romantic suitors and significant others.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This is all thanks to Saturn retrograde in Pisces, activating your ninth house of expansion and self-discovery.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This year has been a bit of self-exploration.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The grotto set the stage for the rest of my visit: quiet spirituality, relaxation, and self-exploration.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • Founders have a wide range of personal reasons for making the pivot, from seeking self-fulfillment to meeting a strategic need in their next chapter.
    Nina Ajemian, Fortune, 24 July 2025
  • Turner-Seed’s own writing lays bare a struggle for self-fulfillment, to reconcile the traditional values pushed by her Jewish immigrant parents with a restless need to discover and make her own way.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Michèle comes across as a singular and powerful personality, with something of Akerman’s own trenchant intellect, assertive candor, and vulnerable self-revelation.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
  • We’re introduced to a contented and excited Clémence who seems in the wake of major self-revelation.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Rehmeier’s regular cinematographer Jean-Philippe Bernier brings an appropriate warmth to the film’s visual palette, generating a dreamlike tone to the imagery befitting the protagonists’ self-image.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The Reprogramming System – Addressing limiting beliefs and emotional patterns around food and self-image that sabotage progress.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Now her work focuses on how clothing shapes emotional well-being, self-concept, and resilience.
    Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • Ultimately, McKibben seems unable to imagine an alternative way for modern, secular life to have meaning that is not grounded in a self-concept of hyper-individuality and the false belief that technology does not already mediate every aspect of our existence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The experience also affected her self-perception.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The series explores themes of transformation and self-perception through the lens of Japan’s booming aesthetic medicine sector.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025

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“Self-knowledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-knowledge. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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