Quotes About Introspection

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.