Quotes About Introspection

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

I'm a one-man idiot.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

You say you want a Prince, yet you look in the swap amongst the frogs.

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.