Quotes About Self-examination

I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my self-knowledge. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider.

I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

È una caratteristica umana il fatto che i nostri problemi personali, quelli che più s'identificano con noi stessi, sono i più difficili da esaminare con la nostra logica. Abbiamo la tendenza a ricercarne le cause intorno a noi, accusando tutto e tutti, salvo la cosa ben reale e profondamente radicata in noi, che ci consuma.

Beni hayal k?r?kl???na u?ratan benden ba?kas? de?il.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

Mon je ne me suffit pas.

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

Jesse rounded forward under the towel and cozied his feet in the bath water. It was as if no one else were around and Jesse was once again alone and at ease with his meditations. He said, "I can't figure it out: do you want to be like me, or do you want to be me?

Such acceptance is not entirely bad. In most cases, these ideas, opinions, and attitudes are quite serviceable. We should not have to think through everything ourselves. We do not need to challenge everything. But we do need to know how to conduct such a self-examination of our beliefs when it is required. Otherwise, we will live our lives as unwitting intellectual puppets.

You look for thoughts and actions that reflect survival and scarcity, comparison and competition, attachment and anxiety. Notice that the question is not, "Are my thoughts . . ." which is a question of assessment, but, "How are my thoughts . . ." which is a true inquiry.

Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time - but how can I be a logician before I'm a human being! Far the most important thing is to settle accounts with myself!

haven't you yet perceived that it isn't possible to live in front of a mirror which not only freezes us with the image of ourselves, but throws our likeness back at us with a horrible grimace?

He was a firm believer in that old saying, a skunk smells it own hole first.

Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace—a gift of God, a message from the unconscious, if you will, to initiate self-examination and repair.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within, and it is certainly because of the pain involved in a life of genuine self-examination that the majority steer away from it.

Conscience is just the same; it examines itself often whenever it thinks it looks good. And remorse is nothing more than the scowl of a conscience seeing its own vileness.

I've looked for an image in someone else's mirror, and so have avoided seeing myself.

Ä°nsanlar?n baÅŸkalar?n? kendi kusurlar? yüzünden suçlamalar?n? çok duydum.

Thinking is simply an orderly process of asking yourself questions.

When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say.

There is only one reason of YOUR failure..'You

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.