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Quotes About Self-examination

Has anyone ever actually told you how up yourself you are?
~ Deborah Levy
A self check in is a way to know and manage awareness, attention and Intention.
~ Deepak123hr
Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
and nothing was burning, nothing but I
~ Denise Levertov
If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these beliefs as if they were true because we have never identified them clearly enough to question them, to challenge them.
~ Dennis Merritt Jones
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
~ Michel de Montaigne
When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.
~ Clark Moustakas
Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.
~ Nelson Mandela
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
~ Philip James Bailey
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
~ George Eliot
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.
~ Josh Billings
Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
~ George Higgins
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
~ Cyril Connolly
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.
~ Josh Billings
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
~ Joseph Heller
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
~ Tokugawa Iehiro
When you don't investigate what's going on with your words, thoughts, and beliefs, you risk stumbling through life on autopilot.
~ Jen Sincero
This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Razborit ?ovjek mora na?i dovoljno društva u samom sebi.
~ Emily Bronte
Un hombre sensato debe tener bastante compañía consigo mismo. -¡Magnífica compañía- murmuró Heathcliff [...]
~ Emily Bronte
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness
~ Epictetus
When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
~ Epictetus
sophistical questions, so we ought to exercise ourselves
~ Epictetus