Quotes About Introspection

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

When you look in the mirror, your 'appearance,' that outer you, is what you see first.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.