Quotes About Introspection

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.