Quotes About Self-examination

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Before you fix something, look in the mirror first.

Self- examination is essential if you want to heal and become whole. Through self-examination the Holy Spirit will show you what you need to change or deal with. Taking responsibility for your hurt and pain will lead to internal changes, character growth and needed personality changes.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

Instead of always judging all other people all the time, take some time and try judging yourself, and ask yourself whether you are what you think you are.

Before you tell someone how to get from point A to point B. Before you advise someone to get their house clean. Before you educate someone on how to live their life..., you better first know where you fall in the alphabet, that your own house is in order, and you are living right. Hypocrisy is never fashionable or a good look.

No one can tell more about you if you close your eyes.

To the person who thinks the world is full of fools, look in the mirror.

All we are not stares back at what we are.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think

And how reliable can any truth be that is got By observing oneself and then just inserting a Not?

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.

I had a small looking glass on the wall and I stood before it and gazed at my own reflection.

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others

I say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living

why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?

She had seen early in life that there was none in this world to audit one's soul. A man could deform himself into the most miserable of creatures, and no holy hand would descend from the clouds and cry Halt. And if there was no auditor, then one must audit one's own soul, tenaciously and without mercy.

Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.

Staring at his own face reflected in a cup of bitter karma. For