Quotes About Introspection

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an appreciation of yourself for what you are.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

Good comedians are great philosophers.

The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.