Quotes About Self-examination

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

...never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.