Quotes About Introspection

There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.

He who lives wisely to himself and to his own heart looks at the busy world through the loop-holes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it…. It is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things;… to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.

have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less lone than when alone...I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country...I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude...

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.

El hombre es el único animal que ríe y llora; porque él es el único que conoce la diferencia entre las cosas que son y las que debieran ser.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

the mystical faculty in me which produced those strange rushes or bursts of feeling

No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

a famous quote by Nietzsche, "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.

We all exist in a state of doubt even when we do not realize it.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making

Religion… shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude.