Quotes About Self-analysis

I am my own biggest critic.

We're our own worst critics.

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.

Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It's important to write this down because these are the kinds of things your self-serving bias will want to forget or minimize.

I usually won most of the arguments I held with myself in my head—

It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.

it encourages its readers to engage in similar acts of self-scrutiny.

to become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.

I am arrogant,' he once said of himself in a perceptive piece of self-analysis, 'but not conceited.

I'm not one to probe my limitations.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

Only a human being can step out of himself and analyze what he is doing right and what he is doing wrong. A dog

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Well, my rationalization for today is that if "an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself" the same could be said for masturbation or even better for suicide

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

I hate watching my own work... I find a lot of faults.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner.

I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

È una caratteristica umana il fatto che i nostri problemi personali, quelli che più s'identificano con noi stessi, sono i più difficili da esaminare con la nostra logica. Abbiamo la tendenza a ricercarne le cause intorno a noi, accusando tutto e tutti, salvo la cosa ben reale e profondamente radicata in noi, che ci consuma.