Quotes About Self-examination

The Self is the measure of everything.

Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best.

There lives a man, who is too small for his own brain." #iampm

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

I just realized, there is too much of me in me.

Question everything and start from yourself.

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

she might even be so zealous about religious observances as to be unable to see her own faults;