Quotes About Introspection

On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!

Only the dull don't doubt!

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

Silent streets have many things to say.

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!

There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the whole world with an army? What a primitive dream you have! To earn millions of dollars? What a greedy dream you have! Question your dreams!

You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!

You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!

My mother left home in the manner that characterized everything she did: with a decision that swelled and ripened slowly and once made could be rescinded by no one. She would sit at the kitchen table with a large sheet of paper that she would divide into two columns. At the top of one she would write FOR and at the top of the other AGAINST...She made her lists, counted on her fingers, and made her decision only after tabulating and weighing.

If only we could get rid of every dead thing inside our own bodies and souls!

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.