Quotes About Introspection

Only one who is self-aware can question her own self-awareness.

A year earlier, I had described campaigns to reporters as "like an MRI for the soul—whoever you are, eventually people find out.

There's a part of me that knows that I'll never die. There's a part of me that knows better.

Life is a competition... Not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives. Each to master some weakness of yesterday. Each day to repair a mistake; Each day to surpass ourselves.

Warren Buffett once put it: "The most important thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Many people] plunge into all sorts of detail about what they want to accomplish, what investment they should buy, and where they want to be, without fist making sure they know where they stand now.

just look around you. I don't wish to be rude …

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, "howdy-howdy, God," and we jaw fer a bit.

Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.

It's easier to paint the angel's feet to another masterwork than to discover where the angels live within yourself.

Epictetus: "Look not for any greater harm than this: destroying the trustworthy, self-respecting well-behaved man within you.

Writing is no answer but when you feel deeply there is little else to do.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Being in trouble can have a funny effect on the mind. I don't know if I can explain this. You go through some days and you seem to be hearing people and you seem to be talking to them and you seem to be doing your work, or, at least, your work gets done; but you haven't seen or heard a soul and if someone asked you what you have done that day you'd have to think awhile before you could answer.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

It was as if in exploring each other, each of them discovered something of himself he had not yet learned to love.

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.

Voyeur" [Chorus:] I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. [Verse:] Cause I am flawed When I am through those doors Cause I am flawed Times unsure I should do whatever will make you feel secure [Chorus: x11] I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me.

We inhabit two universes, then, One is the universe inside our skulls - our viewpoint universe, as it were.

Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

That favorite subject, Myself.