Quotes About Introspection

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that I sometimes don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

The final mystery is oneself.

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy, said the Dragon-fly

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.

I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People people have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself.

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I know life, I have no more to say.

But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell.

My dear fellow, I am not quite serious. But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.