Introspection Quotes

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

The only journey is the one within.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around...

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for wh...

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fi...

Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially a...

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to car...

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that ...

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking abo...

What is reading but silent conversation.

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

So young and so lethargic! As though he had been born to sit and stare like this. Ever since Kiyoaki...

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occa

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love ...

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in lov...

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out i...

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dar...

A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we fin...

They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important...

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflec...

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, ...

Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have ...

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissati...

I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which m...

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is...

Who so loves believes the impossible.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the th...

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I ...

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to lo...

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored...

A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the ...

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose with...

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not...

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little...

I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was...

I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was...

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in...

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelin...

The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasin...

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said some...

It is good for society to have this introspection.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

Love is above all else the gift of oneself.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at you...

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after ...

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine it becomes more satisfying more refreshin...

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb t...

Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But...

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.