Quotes About Introspection

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

To understand a man is really to be that man.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.