Quotes About Self-examination

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see

The highest form of conciousness is self-conciousness

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

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves

Gain insight into who you are and what you do

The deepest and most profitable lesson is this,the true knowlege and contempt of ourselves.

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

TURN your attention upon yourself and beware of judging the deeds of other men, for in judging others a man labors vainly, often makes mistakes, and easily sins; whereas, in judging and taking stock of himself he does something that is always profitable.

Hidden pride is a most pernicious vice, the more so since it is not recognized and does not recognize itself. On the outside, it may appear gentle, mild, and even humble. Yet inside, it burns away bitterly. The person who is subject to such pride becomes inordinately elated when he is successful but is disturbed and dejected in the face of adversity or failure.

Pon los ojos. en ti mismo y guárdate de juzgar las obras ajenas. En juzgar a otros se ocupa uno en vano, yerra muchas veces y peca fácilmente; mas juzgando y examinándose a sí mismo se emplea siempre con fruto.

Yo penetro los secretos; y sé que te conviene mucho para tu bien, que algunas veces te deje desconsolado; para que no te ensoberbezcas en los sucesos prósperos, ni quieras complacerte en ti mismo por lo que no eres. Lo que yo te di, te lo puedo quitar, y volvértelo cuando me agradare.

You know it's time to step back and take a long, hard look at yourself when a New York City cabbie is giving you life advice.

Whether it's this year or next year, I don't want to leave basketball limping out of basketball. At the end of the day, we're all men and we all look at ourselves every morning and you have to ask yourself, Did I leave the way I wanted? Did I do everything I possibly could do to leave the way I want?'

British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

I have no desire to look at myself.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The

When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it.

inside her. So different from an

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

With every lecture, you're forced to look again at every choice you've made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

Rip yourself open. Tell me my life story before I die. Sew yourself shut.