Quotes About Introspection

A man is known by the books he reads.

We are wiser than we know.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...

A man is a god in ruins.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

A man is what he thinks about all day long

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.