Quotes About Self-examination

You can't get away from yourself, or can you? So why are you trying to...

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.

We will always think about a change of attitude from others. Will we ever think about the same in ourself?

If you really want to understand life, you have to stop pointing fingers at others and begin to understand every aspect of your life and see how it shapes in different ways.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

I've had enough me to last a lifetime,

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

I haven't been feeling like myself lately. No, I've been feeling like my clone.

Find some humility, or it will find you.

I got up and stared at myself in the bathroom mirror, first thinking about how great I looked, then thinking about how the cops weren't going to catch me.

We Each Know Ourselves Better Than Anyone Else Can.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart?

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

I don't know what understanding myself is. I don't look inside. I don't believe I exist behind myself.

Ahí es donde uno aprende y capta si uno se la puede: si uno es capaz de estar en silencio con uno mismo.

Why is it [the unexamined life] not worth living? The unexamined life does not ponder questions like this: Who am I? Where am I? What ought I to do? What may I hope? The unexamined life does not evaluate alternative futures. It "lives with the flow." The unexamined life hears no evil and sees no evil. It is devoid of critical self-assessment. The unexamined life stifles the breath of reason. It violates a distinctive human capacity.

porque yo no pedí nacer en forma de signo de interrogación

Si una podría [sic] ser su propio espejo una vez siquiera! Yo reflejándome en mí a la inversa (mí reflejado en yo). Es decir que en vez de mirarme en mi espejo quiero que mi espejo se mire en mí.