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Recent Examples of self-knowledge
This is where self-knowledge becomes relational intelligence.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
But this singularity—call it obsession or meditation—is also a type of self-knowledge.
—Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
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
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
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
History has already taught us the harms of withholding self-knowledge and the possibility of reunification.
—Time, 28 May 2025
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
But this singularity—call it obsession or meditation—is also a type of self-knowledge.
—Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
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
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
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
History has already taught us the harms of withholding self-knowledge and the possibility of reunification.
—Time, 28 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-knowledge
- self-realization
- self-discovery
- self-exploration
- self-fulfillment
- self-revelation
- self-image
- self-concept
- self-perception
Noun
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Taking the main character’s famous journey of self-realization every night.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
21 Dec. 2025
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Although that self-realization is timeless, Roder cannily positions it to speak to contemporary times.—
Stephen Saito,
Variety,
23 Nov. 2025
Noun
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It’s been a journey of self-discovery.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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The number Seven is an extremely sensitive point that marks moments of insight, compassion and self-discovery.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This rigorous self-exploration continued past the point that his disease cost him control of his hands.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2025
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Many of his clients are women, often in their 30s to 60s, seeking meaningful self-exploration.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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But this is a Norman Lear comedy after all (his last before passing in late 2023) — so by the end of the first episode, the hilarious sitcom has revealed its true interest in acceptance, forgiveness, and self-fulfillment.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
17 Nov. 2025
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And increasingly, women are choosing solitude and self-fulfillment over unsatisfying relationships.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Later in her speech, Paulson noted a self-revelation about Roberts, 58.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
7 Dec. 2025
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Outside of the usual social structures, self-revelation can occur being two islands on opposite sides of the world.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Glasses don’t fit his self-image.—
Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The entire Bravo project is displaying-while-interrogating the self-image of rich women.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
Noun
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But Rushdie struggles with that self-concept.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Jan. 2026
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Both Neptune and Saturn station direct in your sign, marking a massive turning point in your self-concept and spiritual evolution.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
28 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Tension builds through a series of squares to the change-maker planet (Uranus), some of which include Mercury, Venus and eventually the sun, disrupting conversations, relationships and self-perception in ways that feel abrupt but necessary.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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That would give Putin confidence that the United States will continue to treat Russia as a serious player, commensurate with Moscow’s own self-perception.—
Thomas Graham,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Dec. 2025
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“Self-knowledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-knowledge. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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