Quotes About Self-examination

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from several pieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to my own governing method, ignorance.

If each man, on hearing a wise maxim, immediately looked to see how it properly applied to him, he would find that it was not so much a pithy saying as a whiplash applied to the habitual stupidity of his faculty of judgement.

Ruhumuz yapaca??n? gösteriÅŸ için yapmamal?, her ÅŸey içimizde, hiçbir gözün görmediÄŸi en gizli yerimizde olup bitmelidir.

Kendi kendimize düzen vermenin ne kadar güç olduÄŸunu biliriz.

I have never seen greater monster or miracle in the world than myself: one grows familiar with all strange things by time and custom, but the more I frequent and the better I know myself, the more does my own deformity astonish me, the less I understand myself.

Ne obmanjuj makar samoga sebe.

Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

Pero después llega un momento en el que estás frente al espejo y te preguntas: ¿esto soy yo? ¿y por qué? ¿por qué me he solidarizado con esto? ¿y a mi qué me importa este rostro? Y en ese momento todo empieza a hundirse. Todo empieza a hundirse.

Zelfkritiek betekent de onderwerping van de aangeklaagde aan de aanklager.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.

Well, sweetheart, it's the last place we look—to ourselves. This is a surgery. We go in and get it all.

She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

There was no himself in himself.

Anger helped Vimes up the last leg of the climb. Anger at himself and whoever it was who had punctured his holiday. But it was worrying: he had wanted something to happen and now it had. Somebody was dead. Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

Deep in the leather armchair of his soul

Admonish yourself strongly. Scrutinize yourself deeply.

Remember, the principle to apply is, as far as I am concerned, the problem is me. I am the place to start. Others' responses will depend mostly on what they see in me. The most important move is for me to make the most important move.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Self-contemplation is a curse That makes an old confusion worse.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

It's difficult to judge yourself.