How to Use self-knowledge in a Sentence

self-knowledge

noun
  • But there’s dryness to their self-knowledge.
    — Gregory Stebbins, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The multi-day hike proved to be a pathway to greater self-knowledge.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The most useful starting point is self-knowledge.
    — Bill Koch, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Such friendships are few, but foster self-knowledge.
    — Ross Channing Reed, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Their support, combined with all the self-knowledge she's gained has been invaluable.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
  • His appetite for self-knowledge is insatiable.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
  • That means self-knowledge always has a social dimension.
    — Ross Channing Reed, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This makes self-knowledge not a luxury, but an essential career tool.
    — Dave Winsborough, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Grosz aims merely to listen long and well and constructively enough to help his patients gain deeper self-knowledge.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Now even casual drinkers seem to be on a journey of sorts—if not toward sobriety, then toward some kind of self-knowledge.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • The sheer competence of language models has already revamped the human quest for self-knowledge.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This split makes reason, self-knowledge and morality possible.
    — Ross Channing Reed, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The link between self-knowledge and friendship was key for Aristotle, too, more than 2,000 years ago.
    — Ross Channing Reed, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The Enneagram promises self-knowledge.
    — Jennifer Noyes, Air Mail, 20 June 2026
  • In other words, self-knowledge is developing a good relationship with yourself.
    — Ross Channing Reed, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Every experiment, success, and failure builds self-knowledge—the kind no college ranking can offer.
    — Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But this singularity—call it obsession or meditation—is also a type of self-knowledge.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
  • This is where self-knowledge becomes relational intelligence.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Discovering one’s impulses and sources (artistic self-knowledge) is essential for answering these questions.
    — Douglas Unger august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • These names suggest individual agents with self-knowledge, but that's an illusion created by the conversational interface.
    — ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
  • That’s why introspection and self-knowledge are at the core of every spiritual and philosophical tradition—the drive not just to know the world but to know ourselves, with each layer of self-knowledge unlocking a deeper one.
    — Arianna Huffington, Time, 29 June 2026
  • Set in New York City at the turn of the millennium, Don't Stop is a novel of self-discovery and self-knowledge, and the dangers associated with both.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Costume designers and Reid reinvent Lestat’s look with punk, goth and 18th century flourishes as the series explores his hunger for validation and self-knowledge rather than simple, fleeting fame.
    — Precious Fondren, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • The brain has always been central to the most insightful thinking on warfare, whether that’s ancient China’s Sun Tzu, who prized deception and self-knowledge, or early 19th-century Prussia’s Carl von Clausewitz, for whom war was a clash of wills.
    — Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025

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