Quotes About Introspection

Introverts are often caught between the need to create a persona in order to relate to others and the need to stay true to themselves. When they wrestle with these competing aims, they gain access to more of their functional potential.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

In the end you have only you.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

What do any of us really know about others? Each of us has his own Day of Judgement inside himself.

But, when you've swallowed what's stuck in your throat, tell me who's the first to notice the rain in this part of the world.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Assim, pois, apesar ou talvez devido à sua solidão, a sua vida se tornou extremamente cheia.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.

Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.