Quotes About Introspection

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.