Quotes About Introspection

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

I wonder what kind of person would come out if I ever did erase all my inhibitions at once, what kind of being is bottled up inside me now.

He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

Mi problema con la soledad es que la compañía de otros nunca ha sido una cura para ella.

Death was irreversible, he suspected, and he began to think he was going to lose

Miért éppen én? – ez volt állandó panasza, és a kérdés helyes volt.

He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.

He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too. He could not make them shut up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

Actually, he was a very warm, compassionate man who never stopped feeling sorry for himself. "Why me?" was his constant lament, and the question was a good one.

I verily beleive [sic] Page that I shall die soon, and yet I can give no other reason for it but that I am tired with living. At this moment when I am writing I am scarcely sensible that I exist.

The American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

Remember, it is the world within, namely, your thoughts, feelings, and imagery that makes your world without.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Prov. 23:7.

A man is what he thinks all day long.

The cause of your drinking is you! It is your sour mental attitude toward life.

The American essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

Who is thinking and feeling it? You are! As you think and feel, so are you.

to overcome the spiritual entropy of egocentrism by regaining a sense of wonder in the face of the "other" that is beyond ourselves.

Up up and quit your books' is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions -- as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable.

Some people might get obsessed with figuring out how they wound up on the F train in drag, with no bag and only one shoe, but that's simply not my style. What's done is done. I'm sure I had my reasons.

If you start buying your own bullshit, you risk becoming management material.

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.