Quotes About Introspection

I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.