Quotes About Introspection

You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

I know him very well, but I think Alessandro Del Piero knows himself the best, better than everyone else, so only he can answer the question if he needs to stop or needs to play. It's his own decision.

I've been so low sometimes and when everyone else would be so high because I didn't like myself.

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

I understand exactly what I am.

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.