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Quotes About Introspection

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles
~ Mark Lawrence
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
~ Max Lucado
The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.
~ Mike Tyson
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.
~ Nora Ephron
I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.
~ Rae Earl
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
~ Rafael Sabatini
Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.
~ Rajneesh
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it
~ Richard Harding Davis
Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.
~ Ridgely Torrence
I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.
~ Riz Ahmed
Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.
~ Rob Cantrell
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
~ Robert Bly
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.
~ Andre Agassi
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
~ Carlos Fuentes
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
~ James A. Michener
Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.
~ Ki Longfellow
Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.
~ Andrei Platonov
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
~ Anthony Trollope
The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer