Quotes About Introspection

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I had not been able to identify its presence.

Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with good clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

moved by his own sermon.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.

Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love

Doing fine. Watching shadows on the wall.

That aspect of reality of most central concern and importance to human beings is, of course, human beings. And in order to survive and succeed in his fullest capacity as a human being, man must be able to identify his own nature (including his means of knowledge) as well as the nature of the world (or universe) in which he acts.

Si corre un pericolo non da poco quando si sta troppo vicino al fiume di pensieri di un'altra persona, perchè più forte è la corrente e più è facile caderci dentro e venire trascinati lontano da sè stessi.

These are my confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it is because I have nothing to say.

But as Camus knew, evil and crises do not make all men rise above themselves. Crises only make them discover themselves. And

But as Camus knew, evil and crises do not make all men rise above themselves. Crises only make them discover themselves. And some discover a less inspiring humanity.

As George Loewenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon, points out, "There is little evidence beyond fallible introspection supporting the standard assumption of complete volitional control of behavior.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

A form of self-delusion.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.