Quotes About Self-examination

I was so taken aback by the question that I had to think about my response for a minute. Had I heard what I thought I heard? ... Remembering Zora Neale Hurston's Janie, I felt something inside me fall off the shelf, and I had to go inside and look around to see what it was.

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

If any experience in your past is defining you today—other than your salvation experience—then you have serious work to do.

Some people never have reflections unless they stand before a mirror.

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me.

Besides, please bear in mind that no one with anything to say ever said anything about anybody but himself.

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

Part of getting old is checking oneself constantly. Keeping a good firm grip on the handrail. Making sure you're still you.

The inner voice always had the hard questions.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl.

Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.

We must examine what we envy or dislike in others and acknowledge those very things in ourselves. This helps to prevent our blaming or envying others for what we have not done ourselves.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

I am other I now.

Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own.

I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.

But I am curious to know are you trying to make a convert of me or a pervert of yourself?

Yours, neither.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!