Quotes About Introspection

Seek thy sacred self.

A man who reads will find himself.

We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them.

One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully.

If you're the only one that can see the genius in you, It's best you revisit the drawing board.

When you need a helping hand, look inside you before anywhere else!

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within.

When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

There is no need for a long, persuasive introduction about self-confidence. If you are not a confident person, you already know it.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.