KNOWING YOURSELF.
"Piety is a very fine word which in common parlance has suffered some degradation. It has come to be confused with being pV whereas it means nothing of the kind. Pietas is really the gift of reverence for all things that are good, and the gift of performing yoqr duty primarily to those among whom you live, and through them to your country, and the world, your duty to God and man in fact — arid that comprises really in its essence the whole duty of man. True knowledge covers a very wide field. It m§ans knowledge of yourself, which is not common; and true knowledge implies knowledge of your own ignorance which is not common — and the possession of which would save you from talking the most unutterable rot when you grow up — and the knowledge of your own limitations which best enables you to appreciate both the imitations and the good points of other people, and which enables you to know where to go to get the knowledge you require. It enables you to know the true form from the false,"r-Mr Stanley B.aldwin.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370128.2.15.3
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 4
Word Count
186KNOWING YOURSELF. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in