“We may never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own Soul.”
Summations, Chapter 56
Variant: We can never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own Soul.
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First Mansions, Ch. 2 : The Human Soul, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman
Interior Castle (1577)
Context: We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

Talkin' 2 Myself
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Sermon 9, as translated in The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church (1999) by Hughes Oliphant Old, Ch. 9: The German Mystics, p. 449

Source: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 90
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 602.

“5451. We never know the Worth of Water, till the Well is dry.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)