Quotes About Self-examination

Soy el pensamiento en el baño en la habitación sin espejo.

o my mind, get me to meet me and then onwards, mind your own business.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

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Introspection is often portrayed as an indoor, solitary thing, the monk in his cell, the writer at her desk.

IN THIS EVER-CHANGING world there are two important things that we should keep in mind. The first is self-examination. We should re-examine our own attitude towards others and constantly check ourselves to see whether we are practising properly. Before pointing our finger at others we should point it towards ourselves. Secondly, we must be prepared to admit our faults and stand corrected.

Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It's only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.

Acaso no somos todos un retrato de lo que pensamos, de todas las decisiones que hemos tomado hasta ahora?

There are no curses, only mirrors you hold up to the souls of men and women.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Be particularly alert to any suggestion that you have become selfish or different.

We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining ... Most of us are practiced at talking ourselves out of risk. We are skilled speculators on the probably pain of self-exposure.

The ability to see and examine himself; the ability to make moral decisions and act on them; the mental and physical courage of his suicide. "He took his own life" is the phrase; but Adrian also took charge of his own life, he took command of it, he took it in his hands—and then out of them. How few of us—we that remain—can say that we have done the same? We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

if they did not interrogate their most fundamental beliefs, they would live superficial, expedient lives, because "the unexamined life is not worth living."7

Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the plank in your own?

Every day I examine myself on three counts: in what I have undertaken on another's behalf, have I failed to do my best? In my dealings with my friends, have I failed to be trustworthy in what I say? Have I passed on to others anything that I have not tried out myself?71

herself, but what would she find? A kept woman who was incapable

Kdo se dosud z vlastního popudu neprosvÄ›cuje a nechápe svou vinu, bude mít sklon obžalovávat žalobce

Philosophical activity is fully real only at the summits of personal philosophizing, while objectivized philosophical thought is a preparation for, and a recollection of, it.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.