Sentence examples for knowledge ourselves from inspiring English sources

And because we had no sense of what we should do, we produced all the missing knowledge ourselves.

As a nation we have become so accustomed to letting people tell us what to believe, that we all too rarely seek knowledge ourselves.

Second, we developed the measures for social support and medical knowledge ourselves.

"The highest function of art, and of literature in particular, is to bring us to that knowledge of ourselves that college ought to start to give us".

But the genome's writ reaches beyond medicine and will in time redefine knowledge of ourselves, our history, our innate capacities and our relationship to the rest of creation.

Still, the early boosters of the personal genome say the best bet for improving individual health care is not only to embrace genetic knowledge about ourselves, but to share it with others.

Cambridge, 303 pp., £45, March, 0 521 82168 1 In November 1619 René Descartes retired into a 'stove' in order to reflect on the foundations of our knowledge of ourselves and the world.

It says a lot for "Let's Take the Long Way Home," Gail Caldwell's ferociously anguished chronicle of her best friend's terminal cancer, that it manages to be, among many other things, a properly intelligent examination of the way in which dogs can help heal our past, enhance and challenge our knowledge of ourselves, even shed light on the mysterious workings of the human soul.

William also notes our knowledge of ourselves and the importance of singular knowledge for our dealings with the world.

Rational actions ought to be based upon rational beliefs, where science has proven to be the most reliable method for acquiring knowledge about ourselves and the world around us.

Thinking of science at the most basic level as the project of acquiring knowledge of ourselves and our world, it is clear, from this perspective, that the doctrine of imago dei underwrites this project.