Quotes About Introspection

I find out what I really want by seeing what I do," said Ender. "That's what we all do, if we're honest about it. We have our feelings, we make our decisions, but in the end we look back on our lives and see how sometimes we ignored our feelings, while most of our decisions were actually rationalizations because we had already decided in our secret hearts before we ever recognized it consciously.

The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.

I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war

The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again.

I know you!' She insisted. 'No you don't. But that's all right, because I don't know me either, let alone you. We never understand anybody, not even ourselves.

We've just got to face the fact that we're second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Or perhaps it's just that none of us could be happy living with no other company than ourself.

He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Isolation is—the optimum environment for creativity. It

You must be good company for yourself. Not me. My memories. Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

I find out what I really want by seeing what I do," said Ender. "That's what we all do, if we're honest about it. We have our feelings, we make our decisions, but in the end we look back on our lives and see how sometimes we ignored our feelings, while most of our decisions were actually rationalizations because we had already decided in our secret hearts before we ever recognized it consciously.

Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!)

You've lost faith in yourself? Isn't that rich? A god who's become a self-atheist!

Inside us there is a place that is our true self.

Mikal sintió un dolor que no podía soportar. Puso su mano en el fuego hasta que el dolor de su cuerpo forzó a remitir el dolor de su corazón. Entonces retiró la mano, la frotó y se preguntó por qué las heridas internas no podían curarse con tanta facilidad.

How suddenly we find the flesh of God within us after all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

He had thought that he valued his solitude; now, though, with solitude forced upon him, he felt an urgent need to talk, to be heard by someone, as if he could not be sure he even existed without someone's conversation as evidence.

cuando mi mirada baja, mi corazón se alza.»

It was a new thing in the world, to have someone to talk to who was not substantially yourself.

Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena. Incluso el más malvado de entre los hombres, si conoces su intimidad, tiene algún acto generoso que le redime de sus pecados, aunque sólo sea un poco generoso.

And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end.

How quickly we find the flesh of God within us all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope