Quotes About Introspection

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

We understand nature by resisting it.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.