Quotes About Introspection

We men are wretched things.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins." "I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

You find out what type of man you are.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.