Quotes About Introspection

This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

The problem is that we are humans.

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

Sometimes you have to sit alone and enjoy the nature and try to see in the sky transparent faces.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.

Tell me what's the difference

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.