Quotes About Introspection

A man's head is his castle.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

The superior man limits his achievements.

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

I never thought about doing men. Never.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.