Quotes About Introspection

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.