Quotes About Self-examination

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

The unlived life is not worth examining.

If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

Maybe one morning I'll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.

I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

Study everything, but study yourself first.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!

To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

If you feel that you are going without go within

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.