Quotes About Introspection

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself

Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

I have no home but me.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.