Quotes About Introspection

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.