Quotes About Introspection

He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.

as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

I like to be alone. Also, I drift, perhaps. When in a crowd, nothing seems to be worth while, and one is an ant in a hurrying mass. Alone, thoughts come with force. They strike one as bluntly as seen things impress themselves.

But he knew he wouldn't." How much it said, that line; how much it told about himself.

He turned then to go on—and stopped dead in his tracks. Suddenly he had never felt so good and so foolish in his life. You God damned fool, he said to himself; if you've got enough curiosity and interest to know what's in that book, then what the hell are you running away from?

Suppose that lad— Suppose time could be all mixed up so that the child of twenty years ago could look into the bathroom mirror and see himself reflected at thirty-three, as he saw himself now. What would he think, that boy? Would he have accepted it—is this what he dreamed of becoming? Would he accept it for a moment?

It was an interesting face, no question about it. The mirror was just dark enough so that he seemed to be seeing a stranger rather than himself. Completely objective, he looked at the face in the glass and began to study it so intently that he was almost surprised to see its expression change under his gaze to one of searching concern.

He had awakened fully dressed on the couch in the living room. His feet burned. He reached down and unlaced his shoes and kicked them off. He rose to a sitting position and pulled off his coat and vest, untied his tie and loosened his collar. Automatically his hand groped beside the couch for the pint on the floor. His heart sank as he found it, and found it empty.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

man was not made to be guilty, sin is not interesting, the only ethics are those which lead man toward the greater things he carries in himself.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

I want you to look and think. I want every one to look and think. Half the misery in the world comes first from not looking, and then from not thinking. And I do not want you to be miserable.

Know thyself' is a highly overrated piece of wisdom. As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do and judge them by their works.

As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do and judge them by their works.

the self (or "object self") and the observing self.

spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe." (pg. 127).

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me