Quotes About Introspection

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
(from The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1)

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.