Quotes About Introspection

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

Men must go out of their minds.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.